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Author: Abby Mitchell

Abby Mitchell is a senior at Nerinx Hall High School in St. Louis Missouri. Additionally, she works as an intern at the Missouri History Museum and volunteers at KUTO crisis hotline..

Let’s repeal the ban on gay blood

July 22, 2014 Abby Mitchell Activism, LGBT Leave a comment

On July 11, 2014, nationwide, gay men contributed to blood banks in the only way they legally can: Instead of men being able to

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The education corporation vs. the American dream

April 30, 2014 Abby Mitchell Business, Education, Youth issues Leave a comment

This week, Elizabeth Warren published her book, A Fighting Chance, in which she illuminates another important issue that, for a graduating high school senior,

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The progressive way to peace

March 28, 2014 Abby Mitchell LGBT, Literature/Arts/Film, Religion in Politics, Women Leave a comment

Yoruba Richen has a unique worldview. As an African-American woman, she sees a distinct correlation between the civil rights movement and the modern day

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Feminism is dead, he said

February 3, 2014 Abby Mitchell Media, Women 4 comments

“Feminism is dead,” he said casually. I almost choked on my latte. As I sat across from him at a coffee house, I could

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Mass incarceration–the new Jim Crow

January 28, 2014 Abby Mitchell Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Police, Poverty, Prison, Youth issues One comment

I think it’s time to talk about an issue that isn’t glamorous or infamous, but it is so subtle and so completely off the

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Waiting for the next revolution: What “The Chicago 10” taught me about modern America

December 2, 2013 Abby Mitchell Activism, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Democrats, History, Literature/Arts/Film, Police, Politics, Youth issues 7 comments

I was 17 and skeptical when I saw the movie poster for Chicago 10 at the Missouri History Museum where I work. The exaggerated

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