Sarah Hooper

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I'm part of the Columbine generation - nothing has changed in America

My first day of kindergarten was a hot August day in 2004, in Ms Lawson’s class.
I remember my biggest concerns were making sure I had a My Little Pony glitter backpack, a 24 pack of crayons (with the built in sharpener, of course) and being able to tie my shoes.
Within two months of starting school in North Carolina, we had our first ‘code red’ drill. Schools hesitated to use the name for what the drill was really meant to prepare us for – active school shootings.
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60 years on from Mississippi Burning - the three martyred civil rights workers

‘There are those who are alive, yet never live. There are those who are dead, yet will live forever. Great deeds inspire and encourage the living.’
On a hilltop in a small Mississippi town, that quote is inscribed on the grave of James Chaney, a Black activist, who was gunned down at point-blank range by white supremacists.
His death only came to national spotlight because he was killed by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) alongside two white civil rights activists.
Six weeks earlier, the small town of Phi...
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