LNGenZ News for Kids: Current Events

China and the U.S. Aren’t Getting Along The United States and China have not been on the best of terms lately. First, there were the trade wars between the two countries, then the novel Coronavirus that reportedly started in the… Read More

With persistent civil unrest going on in cities across the nation and nasty Coronavirus numbers coming out, there is much to process in the next 99 days. That’s right, only 99 days until voters choose who will be the president… Read More

Baseball is Back – With a Twist It’s baseball season, but what are fans supposed to do during a pandemic that prevents large gatherings? Major League Baseball (MLB) has been on hold due to the Coronavirus, but it’s just starting… Read More

With the November election only a few months away, the candidates for president are hard at work campaigning. Over the last few months, the Trump campaign has seen disappointing results in some key battleground states that it won in 2016…. Read More

President Donald Trump isn’t doing as well recently in national polls, and some Republicans are very worried that he could lose his bid for re-election. Will Joe Biden win, or are the polls wrong? 2016 In 2016, nearly all national… Read More

President Trump signed the Executive Order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes on July 3, the same day he spoke at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. The president described his vision for what he called a National Garden… Read More

The Trumps Wear Face Masks To wear a mask or not to wear a mask, that is the question. Or, at least, that’s what American citizens have been debating since the Coronavirus pandemic first hit. Earlier in the crisis, the… Read More

The people leading Black Lives Matter (BLM) have some Americans worried about what is to come as this summer of civil unrest continues. Are rioting, looting, and vandalizing statues going to lead to widespread violence? If this is merely the… Read More

What Is ‘School Choice’? School choice refers to the right of parents and guardians to choose which school their kids attend, usually supported in some way, such as through a voucher program. Without school choice, parents can choose to send… Read More

Frederick Douglass Statue Torn Down Another casualty fell victim to the movement to get rid of historical statues from the American culture. Activists for Black Lives Matter have been damaging and destroying sculptures depicting the Confederacy, claiming the monuments represent… Read More

Americans demand solutions in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody. Both the House Democrats and the Senate Republicans have proposed bills to answer the call, but neither seems willing to consider the other’s offering. Has real police… Read More

NASA Names Headquarters after a Hidden Figure Have you seen the movie Hidden Figures about a black woman working for NASA in the 1960s?  If so, did you realize it was based on a true story? Well, now, the space… Read More