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Back to school in Texas a year after Hurricane Harvey

In Port Aransas, schools had only been in session a few days when the storm hit, replacing beach-happy bliss with cataclysmic chaos. Boats lay strewn across the roadways, draped in live electrical wires. Dead fish littered the high school track. Natural gas mingled with ground water. More than 2,500 homes in the city of 4,000 residents were heavily damaged or destroyed.

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Carmen Sisson August 27, 2018 May 19, 2019Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, disaster, education, hurricane, Hurricane Harvey, Port Aransas, Port Aransas Independent School District, schools, Texas 0

Teens’ march to honor King became a deeper journey

By Carmen K. Sisson | Christian Science Monitor MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Spirits were high, even as tired ankles protested the last of 50 punishing miles that began Sunday in Dundee, Miss. and ended Tuesday in Memphis. Six youths, ranging in age from 14 to 19, walked along Mississippi Highway 61,…

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Carmen Sisson April 4, 2018 May 19, 2019Recent Bylines anniversary, children, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, march, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, Tennessee 0

Mississippi mandates civil rights classes in schools

In many places, it will end a decades-old culture of silence. People here don’t like to remember the nights of church bombings and explosions; the sound of rifles being loaded in the dark as citizens patrolled sidewalks and sanctuaries, trying to stem the violence. They don’t like to remember the fear and distrust – between blacks and whites, but also among themselves.

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Carmen Sisson October 4, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, McComb, Mississippi, racism 0

The Swine Flu Wars: H1N1 Comes to Alabama

Obama H1N1 vaccine

Swine flu arrived in Macon County, Alabama, last week, showing up in classrooms at all levels and leaving a spate of empty desks in its wake. But authorities are battling the virus on its own turf, using vacant seats as both a map and compass to stem the tide.

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Carmen Sisson August 28, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, education, H1N1, health, swine flu, TIME, Tuscaloosa 0

What Alabama kids take from Obama’s Inauguration, Knox Part 3 of 3

Obama Inauguration

And then, suddenly, it all came together – why they’d needed to be here so much, why they’d endured the arduous trek just to squint at a distant screen. As they reached the foot of the Washington Monument, so starkly white against a perfect blue sky, encircled by American flags, another sight resonated even more deeply: a rainbow of people of every size, race, and age standing together.

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Carmen Sisson January 21, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 0

The long road to the Obama inauguration, Knox Part 2 of 3

Inauguration

As one of the adults traveling this week from Selma to the nation’s capital with a group from Knox Elementary School, she brings different emotions and motivations than the idealistic young students, all clad in their new winter clothing and visions of a race-free America. For her and many of the other adults, this is a spiritual journey, both an intensely personal moment and a time to celebrate what they and their forebears suffered and accomplished, as well as to see the opportunities facing a new generation.

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Carmen Sisson January 19, 2009 August 16, 2014Recent Bylines Alabama, Christian Science Monitor, Civil Rights, education, inauguration, Obama, politics, Selma 3
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