1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." Credit - MPI/Getty ...

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SINGER-SONGWRITER Gary Granada has been pursuing advocacy with the youth in mind. He and his team at Societrix call it citizenship education — a rights-based theory of change in a society ...