Sophia Walsh learned in her newspaper class that a classmate had stolen a Confederate flag from the pickup truck of another classmate at North Platte High School.
That the police had charged the student who took the flag with a crime was news enough to make it into the pages of The Bulldogger student newspaper, Walsh said.
Then student journalists started to dig deeper, exploring why North Platte students were flying the flag regularly, the effect it had on students of color in the school, and how race, racism and education intersected in their western Nebraska community.
Sophia Walsh, North Platte student journalist.
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