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I’ll trade the university presidents for the Jersey QB

The exalted halls of academia and the grit of the football gridiron have never been more distant from one another than in recent weeks. more

12/21/23

Three college heads who lacked street smarts

Many of us have seen the congressional sound bites. MAGA superstar Elise Stefanik, of New York’s 21st District, made mincemeat out of prestige college Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard . . . more

By Alan J. Singer | 12/21/23

Social media’s responsibility for venom and vitriol

Is Facebook responsible for genocide? It’s an unexpected question, and a frightening one, I know, but it’s one that must be asked. Hear me out. more

4/26/19

Sydney Guye, a Kennedy High School senior, right, submitted the “Outstanding Senior Entry on Genocide, Bias or Tolerance” at Long Island History Day at Hofstra University. Left, Guye’s American history teacher, Dennis Urban.

JFK student earns History Day award

Sydney Guye, a Kennedy High School senior, received the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County’s “Outstanding Senior Entry on Genocide, Bias or Tolerance” award at Long Island History Day, a competition this semester at Hofstra University. more

6/3/15

Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District Social Studies Chairwoman Robyn Einbinder, Mepham Social Studies teacher Stu Stein, Johnson Mutibagirana, Mepham English teacher Ed Grosskreuz and Mepham teacher Marie Netto posed for a photo at a Dec. 15 program featuring Mutibagirana, a Rwandan genocide survivor.

Rwandan genocide survivor visits Mepham

Johnson Mutibagirana was 9 years old when he watched his mother’s execution alongside 40 other Tutsi neighbors when Hutus began the politically driven slaughter of a fellow Rwandan ethnic group in … more

By Julie Mansmann | 1/14/15

Emmanuel Habimana, a Rwandan filmmaker and lecturer who as a young boy in 1994 survived the Rwandan Genocide, addressed students in March at Calhoun High School. He was a guest speaker in social studies teacher Dr. David Goldberg’s “Voices of the Past” class, which deals with human rights violations in the 20th and 21st centuries.

At Calhoun, genocide survivor urges tolerance, peace

When Emmanuel Habimana was a young boy, people often stood outside his family’s home, singing songs of hatred and catcalling at all hours so that those inside could not sleep, he recently told students at Calhoun High School. These memories date from 1992, Habimana said, when he was 7 years old. The harassment of his family — day and night — was so regular and frightening that Habimana asked his parents, “Did you choose to be a Tutsi? Why are we being called snakes, cockroaches?” more

By Brian Racow | 5/15/14

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