High school students across the country are making oral history this week by recording interviews with their elders in an unprecedented effort to stockpile wisdom for the ages.
The Great Thanksgiving Listen was conceived by leaders of the nonprofit oral history project StoryCorps. They're encouraging kids to send their audio recordings to a Library of Congress archive, using a free smartphone app available online at StoryCorps.me.
BOSTON – Boston-based Oxfam America, an international aid group, is urging policymakers to set aside politics and let in more of those displaced by civil war in Syria.
Details of the refugee screening process – and how a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last week might affect it – were spelled out by Noah Gottschalk, a senior humanitarian policy adviser for the group, on Tuesday. In an interview, he refuted some of the recent rhetoric on the issue and appealed to policymakers to stay above the politics.
