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15 September 2020
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
Revisiting Newark police reform six years after an earlier documentary, and after federal intervention, signs of progress provide hope in a year of unrest over police misconduct nationwide. Policies and training were ...
3 September 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Releasing tens of thousands more misdemeanor defendants from jail without requiring cash bail had no measurable effect on crime rates in Texas' most populous county. To settle a lawsuit that claimed cash bail unconsti...
3 September 2020
Orlando, Florida, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
What started as a small group of young adults wanting to help their aging parents navigate telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic, is now a multi-state program that provides devices to seniors and low-income peopl...
3 September 2020
Sydney, Australia
Broadcast TV Programs
5-15 Minutes
Australia's health care system combines public and private health insurance to create a hybrid model that caters to every citizen. Although there is some uncertainty surrounding the future of the private health care p...
2 September 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Groups in the Bay Area that have successfully sought to have police disciplined for misconduct and won new police-accountability policies have turned their form of organized monitoring into a training platform for pro...
31 August 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A longstanding campaign to restore voting rights to people with felony convictions led nine states since the 2016 presidential election to create or expand such rights, benefiting hundreds of thousands of potential vo...
26 August 2020
South Africa
Text
1500-3000 Words
Racial injustice in America and the resulting wealth gap are a result of entrenched systemic inequities that can only be addressed if a collective acknowledgement of the past is made much like it was in South Africa. ...
25 August 2020
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A nonprofit consulting firm, Prosecutor Impact, advances the cause of reducing incarceration and related reforms by helping reform-minded elected district attorneys confront one of the greatest obstacles to change: th...
20 August 2020
New York, New York, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
A Brooklyn school district has changed the zoning and middle school admission process to racially integrate schools and level the playing field. White children previously gained admission to schools with the most reso...
20 August 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Minnesota Freedom Fund spent its first four years as a modestly funded non-profit that used donations to bail people out of jail, as a means of countering a cash bail system that critics see as unfair to people li...
20 August 2020
Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Almost half of U.S. states guarantee citizens’ rights to petition for ballot measures, but the coronavirus made gathering signatures in person infeasible. Massachusetts courts allowed electronic signatures, but other ...
19 August 2020
Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Long summer vacations are a tradition in the United States, but some school districts are challenging the long-standing notion of summer break by using a different model—year-round school. School districts around the ...
19 August 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Over 100 organizations in Chicago that focus on helping those who are experiencing homelessness are now working together to provide COVID-19 testing and increase housing capacity throughout the city. Although testing ...
13 August 2020
United Kingdom
Text
Under 800 Words
More women are serving in top positions of the United Kingdom’s diplomatic corps with a female ambassador to the United States for the first time since the position was created in 1791. Women now hold about a third of...
13 August 2020
Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The August 2020 primary election in Hawaii was the first run entirely with voting by mail and the result was increased voter turnout in all of the state’s voting districts. In fact, the 47.8% voter turnout was the bes...
7 August 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The LBJ Women’s Campaign School at the University of Texas at Austin provides nonpartisan support for women running for political office and seeks to recruit more center-right women into the pipeline of political cand...
6 August 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Philadelphia Black Giving Circle supports Black-led and Black-serving nonprofits, offering funding that was raised through the Black community. The giving circle has helped to build personal relationships with peo...
5 August 2020
Montana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Federal funding helped local food producers expand their operations to include processing plants which enables farmers to meet the demand of Montanans who sought an alternative to the empty grocery store shelves. The ...
5 August 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
New York City's supervised release program stakes a middle ground in the debate over abolishing cash bail systems by paying outside agencies to monitor and help people released from jail while their criminal charges a...
4 August 2020
Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The coronavirus pandemic has largely led to the expansion and adoption of telemedicine, which has helped those seeking treatment for addictions more easily access care. Although advocates of medication-assisted treatm...
1 August 2020
Staten Island, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Young Leaders of Staten Island (YSLI) was created in Staten Island to fight for social justice after young residents of the borough felt the local response to George Floyd's murder was not enough. YSLI mobilized h...
31 July 2020
Nevada, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Meatpacking workers protested Covid-19 safety concerns and a coalition of advocacy groups filed a civil rights complaint with the government accusing Tyson and JBS USA of racial discrimination during the pandemic beca...
31 July 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Urban planning policies can lead to greater racial segregation, sometimes intentionally. While older policies could be explicitly racist, today policies such as zoning, which designates land for residential or industr...
27 July 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
When San Francisco courts stopped suspending drivers' licenses for failure to pay fees and fines, revenues actually increased. The reform, aimed at avoiding trapping poor people in endless cycles of debt and incarcera...
Truthout
Tyler Hicks
26 July 2020
Milford, Delaware, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Body-worn cameras gained popularity as a potential check on police brutality, but for them to fulfill that purpose, numerous changes in typical public policies are needed, starting with public access to videos and ind...
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