On January 27, filmmaker Steven Spielberg delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations General Assembly, which centered on the theme 'Journeys Through the Holocaust."The ceremony also featured a speech by Rena Finder, a Holocaust survivor who had been part of Schindler's list. Spielberg's address coincided with the 20th anniversary of the USC Shoah Foundation, which he founded in 1994.
Dorothy Height, an icon for civil rights as well as women's rights, was celebrated with a Google doodle on Monday on what would have been her 102nd birthday. She died in 2010.
The Republican party is threatened with the implementation of the Common Core Standards Initiative, which aims to standardize education policies across schools in the US, The Associated Press said.
The US Supreme Court's rejection of hearing the state of Delaware's revival of its private arbitration cases program upheld an earlier federal court ruling, which said that the proceedings under the program should have public access, Reuters said.
