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  • What It Takes to Get Women Out of Prison—and Stay Out

    January 12, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans

    In New Orleans, the organization Woman With A Vision has been advocating for and supporting woman of color who have been involved with the justice system. They have worked to decriminalize sex work and created their own diversion program after realizing the racial bias of the district attorney's program - 80 women have completed the program so far, with more to come.

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  • A Fix for Gender Bias in Health Care? Check

    January 11, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    At Johns Hopkins, implicit gender bias was recognized as one of the main reasons for unequal diagnosis and treatment of preventable blood clots. A blood clot prevention checklist was created to disrupt this bias, both by dissagregating decisions as well as reducing intervention of human judgement.

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  • Why keeping minority teachers in the classroom matters

    January 10, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    While minority students in K-12 account for almost 50%, there are significantly fewer minority teachers. Most of the efforts are focused on recruitment but not on retention as teachers spend on average three years at a job. There are a few programs that are helping to increase retention by creating a collaborative community of teachers. However, a more systemic approach is needed.

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  • How this podcast is fighting underrepresentation, one artist at a time

    January 10, 2017 |

    Generocity |

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    Response Location: United States, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

    The popularity of the podcast has skyrocketed in recent years, but minorities remain drastically underrepresented in the field, as with most media realms. Contemporary Black Canvas was created to help encourage people of color to participate, as well as giving minorities a platform from which to speak and a foot in the door of the industry.

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  • Former prisoners offer advice to new leader of Philly effort to help ex-inmates

    January 10, 2017 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program launched in Philadelphia to help inmates reintegrate into the community has hit some stumbling blocks and the new executive director is turning to experts to help fix things: former inmates. She is convening people who came through RISE to hear how the program can do better and truly meet the needs of people coming out of prison. They want to see more connections to jobs, more of a human touch from RISE officials and more outreach to current inmates to get them ready to use RISE services.

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  • Harnessing art to spur entrepreneurship in Live6

    January 06, 2017 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Live6 area is home to a robust cultural and creative community. And with an increase in development, there's opportunity for artists and institutions to tap into that energy to spur growth.

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  • After Flint, are schools being more vigilant about tainted water?

    January 06, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Flint, Michigan

    For most states in the U.S. water testing is voluntary which fails to ensure healthy drinking water. The Flint, Mich., water crisis is leading a number of states to test their school facilities for lead in the water and post the results online.

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  • How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime

    January 06, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Japan

    Japan has one of the lowest death by gun rates in the world, 6 to 33599. How? The country has established strict policies for buying and maintaining guns. The police force has installed restrictions regarding the use of guns so that other non-life threatening methods are used.

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  • Kenya's booming digital sharing economy?

    January 05, 2017 |

    African Business Magazine |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Though the big players in the sharing economy like Uber and Airbnb are eyeing growing middle class markets like that of Kenya, the concept of shared access to goods and services is nothing new for Kenyan communities. Whereas in the West, the shared economy structure arose largely from a desire for flexibility, in Kenya, much of it arose from need. Now platforms like Lynk and Little Cabs are helping connect Kenyan customers to a broad range of service providers.

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  • Sex ed may be a class, but experts say the best education begins at home

    January 05, 2017 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Polls suggest that teenagers’ attitudes and beliefs about sex come mainly from their parents, but parents rarely feel like experts talking about sex. “Talk, the New Sex Ed,” is a non-profit in Pittsburgh which works with parents in an after-school setting, giving them a conversational framework to talk about sex with their children.

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