Museum of Jewish Heritage and NYC DOE Team Up to Combat Anti-Semitism
Following an uptick in anti-Semitic incidents in 2019, the New York City Department of Education is rolling out new efforts […]
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Climate Change Museum Coming to New York City
On Monday, July 20, officials announced a plan for a climate change museum in New York City.
Student Community Action Tours: Using the Humanities to Develop Leadership and Inspire Change
In the summer of 2012, middle school students in a leadership training program hosted by the advocacy group Asian Americans United in Philadelphia read about local resistance to plans to locate a new Phillies stadium in Chinatown a decade earlier. They then studied a map of the neighborhood and considered how siting the stadium there might have had different meanings for different groups – people who lived in Chinatown, people who worked there, local government, businesses and real estate companies, and the police, for example.