Kate Kelly

How do you talk about genocide, human trafficking, modern slavery, oppression and the overall importance of human rights in ways that students can understand? For James Disco, the answer lies in creating graphic novels that tackle tough topics.

James Disco's day job involves working for the Dallas Tennis Association,...

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is an amazing experience for many reasons but this year, a year when women's rights have been under attack politically, I want to report back on some possible reasons for feminist optimism.

Every revolution wants change NOW and the women's movement is no different....

This is National Park Week (April 21-29), and it is a perfect time to pause and consider how fortunate we are for the Park Service and for the lands and monuments that Congress has designated to be national treasures. Whether you are interested in preserving parklands, maintaining areas that depict...

Author and award-winning journalist Judie Panneton grew up as a child of immigrants. Her own feelings of "being different" led her to wonder about the experiences of other children and how it worked out for them. The result is her latest book, Proud Americans: Growing Up as Children...

The United States Constitution is one of the most influential political documents of all time, and it is the cornerstone that supports our liberty.

Whether you're a parent, a teacher, or an interested citizen, what if you could explain the Constitution and the disagreements that led to its crafting...

Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) is not a household name, nor is she someone encountered in most U.S. history books. Yet this woman's life spanned from the post-slavery era to the civil rights movement, and throughout all those years, she fervently pushed for progress, particularly for education and progress for African-American...

Because James Derham lived in the late eighteenth century, the information about his is thin. But even with not too much information, his story is clear:

James Derham was born into slavery in Philadelphia. He was owned by three doctors in the area. In one of the households he learned...

Some people meet with adversity and still manage to amaze. Allen Allensworth (1842-1914) was one of those people who started life with no advantages, and yet his accomplishments go on and on. He inspired then; he inspires now.

Allen Allensworth was born into an enslaved family in Kentucky in 1842;...

Civil rights leader and Nobel Prize Winner Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) was a Baptist minister and father of four, who believed in social change through peaceful means. He was inspirational in both word and deed. We can only wish he had had more years to share his guidance with...

Internet entrepreneur Evan Britton has built a profitable company, Resource Webs, by acquiring educational and niche sites built by people who were passionate about each subject; Resource Webs then sells the opportunity for targeted advertising. The traffic to two of Britton's sites caught his interest, and he began wondering how...

Celebrating New Year's Eve in what we now know as Times Square (then Longacre Square) first took place in 1904 with a big street party for New Yorkers thrown by the New York Times. It was a way to celebrate the opening of their new building on 42nd Street at...

In the midst of all the holiday chaos, many Americans still set aside an evening to load the family into the car and drive around to see the neighborhood holiday decorations. From a rooftop Santa and sleigh to a complete Santa's workshop that covers an entire front yard to a...

"The Super Bowl has the Vince Lombardi Trophy. The National Hockey League has the Stanley Cup, and the Othello championship tournament now has the Jim Becker Trophy," says Jonathan Becker, who now runs Anjar Company, the company that licenses the strategy game Othello. The trophy will be awarded for the...

Fifty-two years ago Robert Luke, Prisoner #118AZ, left Alcatraz for his first taste of life on the outside after more than a decade of trouble with the law.

Robert Luke had a long history of issues that put him behind bars. He had served a year in a Navy...

The very name, Alcatraz, stirs fear and a twinge of excitement at the thought of the stories of the men incarcerated there. From 1934 to 1963 Alcatraz Island served as the first maximum security federal prison in the United States. It was hoped that the location would make it escape-proof,...

Vintage Hollywood glamour photographs are on display at the Grolier Club in New York City from September 14 through November 12, 2011. The exhibit depicts a world from the 1920s until almost 1960 when studios and studio photographers could create and control the images of their stars.

The photographs...

The people must tell the story -- this was the only acceptable answer for Ruth Sergel, documentary filmmaker and activist.

From February 2002 to February of 2003, Sergel put into operation a plan that was intended to capture as many voices as possible. She wanted to preserve the people's...

What if the U.S. government wanted your dog to enlist in the military?

That's exactly the request that went out in 1942 shortly after Pearl Harbor. The direct attack on a United States naval base brought to light the reality of what the country faced. The military realized they had...

On July 27, 2011, the United States Postal Service will release a commemorative stamp to honor Owney, the Post Office Dog, an amazing dog that was found and adopted by postal workers in Albany, New York. Owney repaid the postal workers with loyalty and love, traveling the world via postal...

Anyone who loves comics will be keeping an eye peeled for news coming out of Comic-Con 2011, happening this weekend in San Diego. This comic-oriented occasion also presents the opportunity to remind parents -- and teachers -- that not all comics are fictional plots about superheroes.

Bentley Boyd, a Harvard...