Bell Ringers: Social Studies

In the late 1980s, a few Latin American countries began combining preservation of both indigenous cultures and pristine natural areas by setting aside land for members of indigenous tribes

The image shown here, taken from the early 16th-century Grimani Breviary, depicts late medieval agriculture in the northern Mediterranean region

Droughts are cyclical in Kenya. Before, they came every 10 years, but now they seem to be hitting us more often and for longer periods of time. My community remembers events and birthdays by times of hunger.

Still don’t believe us when we say that college is worth it? Just look at the latest jobs numbers.

“I have a dream,” declared Martin Luther King, in a speech that has lost none of its power to inspire. And some of that dream has come true. When King spoke in the summer of 1963, America was a nation that denied basic rights to millions of its citizens, simply because their skin was the wrong color. Today racism is no longer embedded in law. And while it has by no means been banished from the hearts of men, its grip is far weaker than once it was.