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We are entering humanity’s defining decade, and 2020 is when we have to make the hard decisions.
From the beginnings of computing, technology has been used to oppress or to liberate Black Americans.
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White Sands is one of the few places that offers sledding in the summer. Guests to this site in southwest New Mexico can rent sleds at the visitor’s center and
Scholar-activists discuss the racialized complexities of being Asian American.
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Between 2000 and 2010, nearly 250,000 minors were married in the U.S.
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive.
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In dramatic effect, a Minneapolis resident dumps a bag of money onto a podium during public comments at the final City Council meeting on the 2020 budget last month. The
In the summer of 2017, before her senior year of high school, Isabelle Doerre-Torres met Carlos,* a Salvadoran immigrant on the verge of deportation. Doerre-Torres was an intern at a
Charles Battle’s voice, gentle and soft, is little more than a whisper when he recalls his time at war. No visible scars give testimony to his tour in Vietnam, but
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