Ethnicity
Ethnicity is defined as a shared cultural heritage based on ancestry, language and customs that have endured for years. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Ethnicity” feature reporting that covers conflict between different ethnic groups, ancestral history and the customs that make ethnic groups unique in the world. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on ethnicity.
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Lesson Plans
A Right to Water for Everyone?
This is a multi-week unit on water rights and access. Students examine the causes of water shortages across the globe and explore solutions to ensure that all people have access to clean, safe water.
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Pulitzer Center Update
"Fractured Lands" at Columbia School of Journalism
A panel discussion on the people and issues behind "Fractured Lands," a landmark issue of The New...
September 13, 2016 -
Amir Hassan reports from Manchester, UK, on Muslim youth who embrace their heritage, using it to...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: When the Arab World Came Apart
Reactions to "Fractured Lands," the last leprosy patients in Sri Lanka, and the health effects of...
August 23, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Readers in U.S. and Middle East Respond to 'Fractured Lands'
Landmark reporting project with The New York Times Magazine strikes a chord with readers around the...
August 22, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson tells the story of the collapse of the Middle East over the last 15 years, from the...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Photojournalist Daniella Zalcman Wins 2016 Inge Morath Award
"Signs of Identity" is recognized for Zalcman's "creative approach" to documenting the lives of...
July 22, 2016 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Tina Rosenberg
Tina Rosenberg discusses how a measured dose of wine can become the first step towards stability for...
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This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
![Marcel Ellery](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-30-16/daniellazalcman-soyi-04.jpg.webp?h=04d92ac6&itok=Pl1z2xUe ""I ran away 27 times," said Marcel Ellery, who attended the Marieval Indian Residential School from 1987-1990. "But the (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) always found us eventually. When I got out, I turned to booze because of the abuse. I drank to suppress what had happened to me, to deal with my anger, to deal with my pain, to forget. Ending up in jail was easy, because I'd already been there." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
