Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center

Most social media jobs sell products. This one defends people. The Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center is launching its first-ever Student Ambassador Program, and we're calling on student content creators to join the next generation of human rights activists! We’re looking for: 🔹 Current student creators with 15,000+ followers on Instagram or TikTok. 🔹 Passion and drive to defend human rights in the United States & abroad. 💰 Paid | 🌐Remote & flexible | 📅July 6 - August 17, 2026 Learn more and apply to the role: https://rekhrc.org/4tZBj7W

Another one in the books! 🎾 Earlier this month, The '68 Collective hit the court for Rally for Rights, an afternoon of friendly pickleball rivalry. Robert and Ethel Kennedy were lifelong lovers of sport and a little competition. Trading dinks and rallies for a good cause - pretty fitting if you ask us. Thank you to everyone who came out! Want in on the next one? 🔗 Stay up to date on The '68 Collective events: https://rekhrc.org/3PKHWN9

At Howard, leadership doesn’t always wait until graduation. What started as a student-led research project by HUSA Vice President Payton Garcia, supported through funding from the Robert and Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, has already turned into real relief for students navigating housing insecurity in D.C. Through data, advocacy, and action, this initiative is helping keep Bison housed, supported, and focused on their education, with emergency assistance reaching students facing challenges with rent, utilities, groceries, transportation, and more. Research with purpose. Leadership with impact ... that’s the Howard way. Read the full story on The Dig: https://lnkd.in/e-F8jDx9 #HowardUniversity #StudentAdvocacy #HousingJustice

The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was founded in 1980 with the proceeds from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s bestselling biography, "Robert Kennedy and His Times." Each year, we present an award to the book that, as Schlesinger said, “most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy’s purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity.” The 2026 RFK Book Award winner is Marie Gottschalk, author of "Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America." Our heartfelt congratulations to Marie and Princeton University Press. To learn more about this year’s winners, please visit: rekhrc.org/bja2026

“The important thing is that as a government and as a people we fight and strive to make progress - to maintain freedom and to uphold at all times the dignity and independence of the individual.” - Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Thank you to all the brave service men and women who gave their lives to do just that. Happy Memorial Day.

Lily Rantanen and Tai Caputo are the 2026 RFK Book & Journalism Awards High School Journalism Award winners for their work for the Iowa City High School - The Little Hawk, "Targeted: New Evaluation System Drops All ICCSD High Schools’ Ratings." Through interviews with school principals, a school board member, a parent, and the Iowa Department of Education, Lily and Tai found that the new Iowa Performance Profiles system disproportionately penalized large, diverse schools like City High by holding them accountable to more subgroup metrics (ELL, Special Education, race, etc.) than smaller, less diverse schools like nearby Solon High, which earned "High-Performing." Their article, published in The Little Hawk's February 2025 magazine, gained significant readership and is credited with raising community awareness about the profiles — contributing to City High's ranking improvement the following year, prompting the district superintendent to communicate Performance Profile results to the community for the first time, and earning several journalism awards including Third Place for News Story of the Year from the NSPA. Our heartfelt congratulations to Lily and Tai. To learn more about this year’s winners, please visit: rekhrc.org/bja2026

Our investigative depth reporting project "Nebraska Behind Bars" is the winner of the 2026 College Journalism Award presented by the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center. Join us in congratulating the team of students and faculty who developed the project! See the award-winning report here: http://go.unl.edu/c4w2 Nebraska Behind Bars student team members: Maddie Ames, Chloe Fitzgibbon, Alex Gryczanowski, Jackson Ingvoldstad, Grace Lewis, Ryan Luetkemeyer, Fatima Naqi, Meghan O'Brien, Shelby Rickert, Paloma S., Livia Ziskey Nebraska Behind Bars faculty team members: Associate Professor of Practice Chris Graves, Assistant Professor Linda R White, PhD

The Depth Report Team are the 2026 RFK Book & Journalism Awards College Journalism Award winners for their work for the Nebraska College of Journalism and Mass Communications, "Nebraska Behind Bars." A team of 11 undergraduate students investigated the crisis in Nebraska's prison system. They conducted 128 interviews, reviewed nearly 450 pages of research and records, and filed 16 public records requests. The project's goal was to give voice to those most affected by the crisis in Nebraska's prison system, including incarcerated people, and to hold powerful institutions accountable through persistent, ethical reporting. And The Depth Report Team did just that. Our heartfelt congratulations to the team. To learn more about this year’s winners, please visit: rekhrc.org/bja2026

Matthew O’Neill, Perri Peltz, Olivia Carville, and Kristin Powers are the 2026 RFK Book & Journalism Awards Domestic Television Award winners for their work for Bloomberg Originals, "Can't Look Away: The Case Against Social Media." "Can’t Look Away is not just a film about loss or litigation. It is about the power of storytelling to challenge a status quo that many have come to see as inevitable. We hope it compels audiences to ask hard questions about the systems we’ve built—and to imagine something better." Our heartfelt congratulations to Matthew, Perri, Olivia, Kristin, and Bloomberg Originals. To learn more about this year’s winners, please visit: http://rekhrc.org/bja2026