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How forensic science can aid the human rights movement

Nicole Iturriaga

September 27, 2022 |

Aeon |

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Response Location: Spain

The forensics-based human rights movement uses forensic science to identify victims of genocide and political violence buried in mass graves, allowing their families to arrange proper burial and bolstering collective history around these events. The strategy has been particularly effective in countries with state-imposed silence around past atrocities, such as Spain, where more than 9,000 bodies have been exhumed since 2000.

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How can Ashland preserve its past as it forges into the future?

Dillon Carr

July 15, 2022 |

Ashland Source |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Ashland, Ohio

Preservation Ohio focuses on advocating for the preservation of the state’s historic buildings. The organization works to connect cities across the state with state and local tax credits as incentives to refrain from demolishing historical buildings. Since the first round of funding in 2007, tax credits have been approved for 562 projects to rehabilitate over 795 historic buildings in 77 different communities.

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Grassroots movements fight a broken system

Marisela Amador Callie Giaccone

September 21, 2021 |

The Eastern Door |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Canada, Caledonia, Ontario

"Land defenders" from the Six Nations blocked a planned housing development on contested land by swiftly moving to occupy the site, even after a police raid in which nine protesters were arrested. In place of the now-canceled development, the community erected a dozen tiny homes and a communal kitchen. The protest serves as a model for another occupation by members of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation at Kahnawake, whose 75-day holdout protests a planned 290-unit housing development on land that is subject to the nation's unresolved claim.

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Cases of missing trans people are rarely solved. A married pair of forensic genealogists is hoping to change that

Erica Lenti

September 01, 2021 |

Xtra |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Orange, Massachusetts

Trans Doe Task Force is a nonprofit project by two professional genetic genealogists that works to solve cold cases involving missing and murdered trans people. Trans people are at greater risk of violence. When their unidentified bodies are found, police are more likely to mishandle or neglect their cases. Using the tactics of genetic genealogy to turn a DNA sample into a link to known family members, and then narrowing the list of possible victims to the right one, TDTF has solved two cases out of 173 it has worked on. It also has worked with police agencies to change hearts and minds.

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Why Herders Are Fronting the Battle to Save Cultural Heritage

Dolgormaa Sandagdorj

August 29, 2021 |

Global Press Journal |

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Response Location: Mongolia

Herders in rural Mongolia are given financial compensation to help preserve cultural heritage by keeping watch over the country’s remote relics and burial sites. The historical sites hold a trove of information dating back thousands of years but their remote locations make preservation an arduous and expensive undertaking for the government.

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A New Project Is Bringing the Gay ‘Green Book' Online

Marianne Dhenin

June 29, 2021 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States

In 1965 a traveling salesman published a series of travel guides with gay or gay-friendly businesses across the U.S. that became survival guides for the LGBTQ community. “Mapping the Gay Guides” has digitized those collections, allowing users to explore the original descriptions and added historical content written by graduate students. Reasons for why locations appear and disappear from year-to-year are provided, which sometimes intersect with LGBTQ hate crimes. A $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will allow them to continue to preserve and make the forgotten history accessible.

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Heritage and Survival: two sides of the same coin for conflict-torn Iraq

Chen Wei Hannah

June 26, 2021 |

Pi Media |

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Response Location: Iraq

The Nahrein Network funds projects that strengthen Iraq’s cultural and heritage infrastructure. Many grantees have deep historical knowledge of cultural preservation but haven’t been able to access funding due to sanctions, international isolation, and civil war. The funded projects’ approach to cultural preservation must be rooted in local socio-economic interests and the Network provides mentoring and helps in other ways, like supporting visiting scholarships abroad. The Network’s solutions focus on a long-term relationship building as a way to push for an inclusive post-conflict cultural environments.

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Growing a Just Future in Tulsa

Breanna Draxler

May 31, 2021 |

Yes! Magazine |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed the thriving neighborhood of Greenwood, the Centennial Commission supported a number of initiatives to learn from the past and build a better future. At the base of an ancient elm tree that witnessed the massacre, Up With Trees distributed 100 elm seedlings to children to plant around Tulsa. The commission convinced state education officials to develop a new curriculum on the massacre for K-12 students.

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To Solve 3 Cold Cases, This Small County Got a DNA Crash Course

Virginia Hughes

May 03, 2021 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Kentland, Indiana

Genetic genealogy's use in criminal cases has gone mainstream. As the cases of three murder victims in Indiana illustrate, the science of DNA evidence combined with genealogical research and detective work is rapidly ramping up, from a hobby to a curiosity and now to a major commercial and criminal-justice opportunity. Hundreds of missing persons have been identified from decades-old remains, or murder suspects identified from old biological evidence in cold cases. By creating a family tree of the victim or suspect, investigators can zero in on an identity more quickly and inexpensively than ever.

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How vaccination became 'hip' in the '50s, thanks to teens

Erin Blakemore

April 27, 2021 |

National Geographic |

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Response Location: United States

In the 1950s, the National Institute for Infantile Paralysis launched a nationwide public health campaign to encourage teenagers to receive the polio vaccine. Tactics included interviewing and recruiting teenagers to be spokespeople to better frame messaging around vaccine hesitancy and make the act of getting the vaccine "cool."

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