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In 2013, Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines, displacing more than 4 million people, destroying entire communities and ruining millions of livelihoods. It was the fiercest storm to make landfall at ...
The band files out to the auditorium. Young hears the buzz of students inside. He wonders: Do they know who we are?The marching band used to reflect the school’s majority Black population and the ...
PALACIOS, TEXAS — As other Texans fixed busted pipes and paid off electric bills after the February freeze, Shane Nicaud had to bury 1.5 million pounds of dead redfish into the ground.Nicaud, the ...
Black farmers in Southwest Georgia united to counter discriminatory practices that over decades resulted in thousands of acres of lost land & missed opportunities in USDA funding. Together, these land ...
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes / Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. St. Ann’s Avenue and 139th Street is nondescript, as far as corners in the South Bronx go. The ...
Read the original story in Portuguese Imagine a noise similar to an airplane flying over your house at a low altitude. This is what residents of Sítio Sobradinho, a community of Caetés city, a rural ...
After an officer killed a 16-year-old in Ohio, what does it mean to be a Black girl in America?
CERRO CORÁ, Brazil — Antônio Acelino de Moura, 65, says he imagined the future had finally arrived at his community in the northeast of Brazil when, in 2012, he heard the news that a wind farm would ...
HONOLULU — Navy veteran Mike Plowman, 55, surfs nearly every morning. His home looks out on the vast Pacific Ocean from the seaside community of Ewa Beach, an idyllic sandy beach shaded with palm ...
2019. Forced to flee her home after receiving death threats, Yirley Velasco breaks down just outside her door as she’s about to move away. Reporting fellow Juan Arredondo documented Velasco’s ...
With an emphasis on mental health support & community engagement, a nurse-midwife & professor addresses maternal mortality among Black women & women of color. The nonprofit collective offers clinical ...
To report effectively on tribal communities, you should learn how the tribe passes laws and what their legislative process is, among other aspects of culture and government, said Brewer (Photo by ...