Now playingYou have the power to be an active citizen! A young woman finds her voice building community and making change, to the groove of a H.E.R. song.
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The Bill of Rights
These are our rights, what makes the USA the USA: speech, press, religion and more — and no one can take them away. Performed by Adam Lambert.
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Now playingThese are our rights, what makes the USA the USA: speech, press, religion and more — and no one can take them away. Performed by Adam Lambert.
The subject of taxes can be a lil complicated. But when rapper Cordae breaks it down, it all begins to make sense.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs, Brittany Howard and the "Frozen" songwriters lay out a musical lesson about checks and balances in our government.
Brandi Carlile delivers a message for the young: speak out against the forces that try to silence you — because your right to free speech is protected!
States do some things, feds do others. But when federal and state governments link up, it's a beautiful balance of power. Performed by Kyle.
A Bebe Rexha song celebrates Nikola Tesla, Isabel Allende, Eddie Van Halen and more who started life somewhere else before becoming Americans.
A citizen's anthem from Andra Day says, "All rise!" When you need the law, the courts heed the call. Justice for one should mean justice for all.
We the people hold the power, and when we struggle, we pick each other up and get a little bit… stronger! Performed by Janelle Monáe.
Amanda Gorman, America's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, recites an original poem that celebrates people coming together.