IndyKids Kid Reporter Program
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June is known as Pride Month by people in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community.
Learn about how the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant disaster have affected people’s lives in Japan.
As a civil war begins in the North African country of Libya, the United States and other Western nations take a side and send in troops.
About 100,000 people, including many students and teachers, protested at the state capitol in February. They are angry about a bill proposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to cut the pay and benefits of workers including teachers, bus driver, garbage collectors and other people who work for towns, cities and the state.
After more than 18 days of gathering in the streets, the Egyptian people were victorious: on Friday, February 11, Egyptian President Mubarak was forced out.
The kids and parent at Whittier School in Chicago don’t have a school library and they believe they should have one. They feel so strongly about it that, on September 15, sat in a small building on school grounds that was supposed to be torn down, and refused to leave.
October is LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) History Month, when people around the country celebrate the history of the gay rights movement and achievements of famous LGBT Americans.
On April 20, an explosion at an oil and gas well of the oil company BP caused millions of gallons of oil to pour into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This body of water is a rich environment with hundreds of species of birds and other wildlife.
Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens is retiring in June 2010. What sort of judge will Obama choose to replace him?