Going Public “For Real” Anthony Bernier, Project Director, YouthFacts.org | March 2026 White young people just walked in the front door of the Greenville, South Carolina, main library in 1959. Not so for 18 year old Jesse Jackson (1941-2026). The books Jackson wanted to read during his freshman Christmas break from University of Illinois took
What Ken Burns’ The American Revolution Gets Wrong: Youth Anthony Bernier, Project Director, YouthFacts.org| December 2025 Ken Burns’ new 12-hour PBS The American Revolution examines the War for Independence. As viewers with formal education, we might question some of Burns’ choices and narrative style. I certainly do. But adding Native Americans, Black Americans, and women
On Doing Democracy in “Third Places”: Youth Citizenship Education Anthony Bernier, Project Director, YouthFacts.org | August 2025 Among the vast numbers of books and articles published each year touting youth and promoting youth organizations, rarely is there anything new. Indeed it is all too expected to read cliches about building agencies and creating spaces in
