In a photo captured by Sarahbeth Maney, we see Justice Jackson’s daughter, Leila, looking at her mother with the resilience, the pride, and the joy that young Black women from across the nation exuded toward the television screen. Today, the United States Senate has voted in favor of...

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The Associated Press tapped Our Turn youth leaders, Sidney Griffin (NC), Tamara Morgan (GA), and Rachel McBride (Our Turn's Youth Leadership Council member in Atlanta, GA), to get their thoughts on this nascent moment in history as they observe Ketanji Brown...

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As a former LAUSD student from the Miguel Contreras School of Social Justice and current freshman studying Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at Santa Monica College, I’m one of thousands of young people in Los Angeles navigating school during...

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This year, weeks before Holocaust Remembrance Day, the school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, voted to pull from its eighth-grade curriculum Art Spiegelman’s Maus, a graphic novel that chronicles the experience...

New York, N.Y. (Dec. 20, 2021)—Our Turn is excited to announce its formal partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Atlanta Civic Site to cultivate youth advocates through a new Youth Leadership Council (YLC). Our Turn is working with the YLC to build its organizing structure...

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