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1) Kent State
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Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.
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A young journalist named Jamal Lawson heads to Baltimore to document a rally protesting police brutality after another Black man's death at the hands of police, but things take a turn when the city implements a new safety protocol: the Dome. The Dome turns Baltimore into a highly militarized zone under martial law where no one is allowed in or out. Jamal soon meets a hacker named Marco and Catherine, an AWOL basic training graduate whose parents helped...
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Sixteen-year-old Phoenix knows her parents have invested thousands of dollars to help her leave Hong Kong and get an elite Ivy League education. They think America means big status, big dreams, and big bank accounts. But Phoenix doesn't want big; she just wants home. The trouble is, she doesn't know where that is...until the Hong Kong protest movement unfolds, and she learns the city she's come to love is in danger of disappearing. Seventeen-year-old...
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When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.