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3 ways activist kids these days resemble their predecessors

  • Written by David S. Meyer, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Yolanda Renee King, the grandchild of Martin Luther King Jr., alongside Jaclyn Corin, a Parkland survivor and activistAP Photo/Andrew Harnik

A gaggle of young activists recently paid Dianne Feinstein a visit at the senator’s San Francisco office, imploring her to support the Green New Deal framework for confronting climate change. She...

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