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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
7 October 2021
Virginia, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A new Virginia law restricts when the police can stop motorists, limiting the chances for inequitable law enforcement. Barred from stopping vehicles based on minor infractions like a broken taillight, police in the fi...
7 October 2021
Colorado, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Fifteen months after Colorado became the first state to strip law enforcement officers of their legal immunity from civil lawsuits for misconduct on the job, one lawsuit has been filed over a notorious incident while ...
Respekt
Tomáš Lindner
21 June 2015
Geisenhausen, Bavaria, Germany
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1500-3000 Words
Česko odmítá uprchlické kvóty. Místní politici říkají, že společnost není na příchod a integraci utečenců připravená. Budují v lidech strach z toho, že migrace rozvátí zemi. Zcela odlišný obraz uprchlické krize nabízí...
22 September 2021
Aurora, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
In the wake of 2020's social-justice protests and a controversial killing by Aurora police of a man in their custody, Colorado legislators passed the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act, the first police-reform law ...
14 September 2021
British Columbia, Canada
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The British Columbia government waives tuition at public universities for undergraduate students who grew up in foster care, a measure that takes aim at the disadvantages young people face after aging out of the child...
14 September 2021
Bihar, India
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800-1500 Words
The Bihar, India, state government banned drinking and selling of alcohol in 2016 after women in the mostly rural state mounted protests blaming men's alcohol abuse for rampant violence against women. Hundreds of thou...
13 September 2021
Oakland, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The nationwide nonprofit Partners for Justice aids public defender offices and their clients, helping to close gaps that can turn into unfair outcomes in criminal cases and repeated failures guaranteeing incarceration...
1 September 2021
India
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800-1500 Words
Community-based organizations have been key to reaching historically marginalized populations with COVID-19 information. Grassroots leaders and community workers are effective because they have built trust among commu...
18 August 2021
California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Starting in 2017, California has grown more open to licensing formerly incarcerated people to work as lawyers. State licensing authorities set high barriers to entry to the legal profession in their "moral fitness" li...
3 August 2021
Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
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1500-3000 Words
Married off to an abusive older man at age 9, Akkatai Teli could not read or write. But she recognized how the rural India justice system neglected women like her in a misogynistic society with high rates of domestic ...
30 July 2021
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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1500-3000 Words
After the 2008 economic recession hit, Carla Walker-Miller shifted her energy services business model to not only supply electrical equipment but also implement energy efficiency programs for communities of color in D...
27 July 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Tribaja connects a diverse pool of qualified candidates to tech companies that have cultivated supportive work environments for people of color in an industry that has famously lacked inclusion. Tech companies have at...
16 July 2021
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
When Ann Arbor created a citizen panel overseeing its police department, it chose the approach that research shows is the one best suited to having real authority, and thus the most likely to reduce racial disparities...
14 July 2021
Los Angeles County, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
Based on its success in New York, ‘blind removal’ will be implemented in Los Angeles County’s child welfare system. The pilot project eliminates the child’s race from information available to social workers to prevent...
12 July 2021
California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
California residents passed Proposition 11, a redistricting reform ballot initiative, in 2008 and in 2010, voters strengthened that reform by passing a bill to allow an independent commission to redraw state and congr...
100 Days in Appalachia
Taylor Sisk
8 July 2021
Virginia, United States
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1500-3000 Words
When two hospital systems merged to create Ballad Health, agreements ensured all hospitals would stay open for at least five years and essential services in each of the rural and poorly served counties would be mainta...
8 July 2021
Cairo, Egypt
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800-1500 Words
Organizations in Egypt and Bangladesh are greening their cities by turning rooftops into urban gardens that can grow food, reduce air pollution, and decrease air temperatures. Green Savers in Dhaka has installed more ...
29 June 2021
Gurgaon, India
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800-1500 Words
In 71 cities around the world, users of the My Safetipin mobile app can decide whether to visit a particular neighborhood or plan a travel route based on how safe others deem those places. While the 100,000 or so user...
23 June 2021
Nevada, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Thirteen states restored the right to vote to millions of formerly incarcerated people in the years leading up to the 2020 elections. An analysis of four of them – Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa, and New Jersey – shows the ne...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Association at City University of New York's law school mentors people whose criminal records serve as a barrier to pursuing a law career. FILSAA is part of a movement t...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
21 June 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Philadelphia Financial Scholars is bringing financial literacy to students and their families as well. Students are taught about credit scores, bank accounts, and budgets, as well as entrepreneurial skills through an ...
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Ihab Zidan
20 June 2021
Egypt
Text
800-1500 Words
The Egyptian Facebook group Qawem (Arabic for resist) helps victims of sextortion by turning threats around to target the attacker. Sextortion, in which threatened disclosure of a person's nude or other embarrassing p...
16 June 2021
Riverside, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Riverside County launched College Comeback to address the COVID-19 related decline in graduating high school students going to college. Six counselors each spend 25 hours a week reaching out to the high school class o...
15 June 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Black Country Roller Club and its founder, Cornell Norwood, fostered a subculture in Los Angeles' South Central neighborhoods among Black men who broke the color barrier in competitive pigeon husbandry. Besides th...
15 June 2021
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Delivery cooperatives are being formed as alternatives by drivers who are pooling their money and charging customers a one-time fee in a subscription-based model. Customers and restaurants alike pay a set monthly fee ...
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