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  • How white parents are addressing racism – by reading to their children

    November 29, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    St. Louis-based We Stories provides parents with a course curriculum and reading list for the children with the goal of sparking conversations about race, oppression, and cultural awareness. The target audience of the organization is white families, who—through neighborhood demographics or socioeconomic status—may not have to directly engage with these issues unless they choose to do so.

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  • Participatory Defense

    November 29, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    While there are many factors that have contributed to the sky high incarceration rates in the United States which have left prisons bursting at the seams, one of the causes remains the simple fact that the resources of a private prosecutor vastly outweigh those of publicly-funded defense attorneys.

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  • Officials explore options to expand psychiatric hospital to southern NM

    November 28, 2017 |

    NMPolitics.net |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Vegas, New Mexico

    The only psychiatric hospital in New Mexico is in the north, which means frequent trips must be made from the south to bring new patients which is expensive and makes it difficult for southern families to visit. There is a new push to build a psychiatric hospital in the south to decrease the transportation of patients and include families in care, but there are space and financial issues with this new idea.

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  • Tour Tahoe's Local Food Hub

    November 28, 2017 |

    Mountain Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Tahoe City, California

    Dubbed an agro-ecology center, Tahoe is embracing a different approach to food stability through teaching local residents how to grow food in alpine climates. By picking up food from local farmers and transporting their food to market in a fair and equitable way, the Tahoe Food Hub was born to create and grow a local food system.

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  • How a struggling school for Native Americans doubled its graduation rate

    November 28, 2017 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Since opening its doors in 2006, the Native American Community Academy has built up a school led by native leaders and centered around curricula informed by tribal cultures in New Mexico. The charter school has had remarkable success educating a population that has traditionally sat at the bottom of math and reading test score rankings and is now exporting its model to other tribes around the country.

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  • How Latin America Is Responding to Venezuelan Refugees

    November 28, 2017 |

    News Deeply |

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    Response Location: Peru

    An increasing number of Venezuelans are fleeing to other Latin American countries, such as Brazil and Peru, leading to the need for changes in these receiving countries. Peru has created a temporary permit, while Brazil has expanded their legal migration path for refugees.

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  • Engineering solutions for the future of modern medicine

    November 28, 2017 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England

    The healthcare world is highly innovative right now as it tries to make medicine more personalized and harnesses engineering. Hitachi is trying to aggregate data in order to prevent disease and help the healthcare system function better.

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  • Where Birds and Planes Collide, a Winged Robot May Help

    November 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Alberta

    Airplanes and birds don't mix - thousands of birds are tragically killed around airports each year, and collisions (or "ingestions," as the industry calls them) of birds and jet engines can be extremely dangerous to flights. Finding an effective way to keep birds away has proven tricky, as birds are clever and quickly acclimate to many traditional methods, so the Edmonton airport in Alberta is "piloting" an exciting new technology: a robotic falcon that moves like a real predator, and seems to have had success in trial flights.

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  • VR at the Tate Modern's Modigliani exhibition is no gimmick

    November 28, 2017 |

    Endgadget |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Tate Modern’s 2017 exhibition on painter Amedeo Modigliani included a virtual reality recreation of Modigliani’s final studio in Paris. Seated on wooden chairs with VR headsets on, visitors can explore the studio and hear firsthand accounts of the space from Modigliani’s friends.

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  • Trauma group offers a community in pain a place to heal

    November 28, 2017 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    In order to provide a means for people who have experienced trauma to find support and begin to heal, Reverend Liz Walker founded a counseling group for her Roxbury neighbors. Rev. Walker’s post-traumatic healing group differs from others in that the group is run by the participants’ peers, the group is located in Roxbury, and participation is free.

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