Speak Out
Fifty years ago this week, four African American college students staged the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were paying customers and decided to quietly sit down at the “whites only” lunch counter. This is one of the three main events of the early civil rights movement—the others were the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision that desegregated public schools and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott that opposed segregation on public buses. The Greensboro sit-in was the beginning of a nonviolent movement to highlight the immorality of segregation.
In today's society, there are only a few, if any, physical limitations on our lives: the segregation that we know, the physical kind, is no longer eliminating our pursuits to sit anywhere or gain happiness. But many mental, emotional, psychological, invisible, and clique-created forms of segregation still strongly exist today, and I believe it can all be solved by Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea of integration, to consciously welcome and accept anyone from any background, less of hate and ignorance.
Minh, Nimitz High School, Irving, TX
You just threw the most amazing party for your best friend’s birthday. Everyone’s talking about it, and you can’t wait to post the photos on Facebook. Some partygoers may have gotten a little carried away, but that’s OK, because, after all, only your 300 closest “friends” will see the photos, right? Are you sure? Early in December, Facebook rolled out a new privacy policy. The good news is that its 350 million users will be forced to think about their privacy settings. The changes have simplified the privacy settings and made them easier to understand. But critics warn the new policy pushes users to publicly share more information and gives them less control over their personal data.
If you want you photos private don't post them on facebook. Or maybe just dont have a facebook page
Jake, East Northport Middle School, East Northport, NY