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Social JusticeStacey Abrams Fights For a Fair Count In The 2020 Census
‘The census delivers financial resources and political power, but only to those who are counted.’ — Stacey Abrams is doing everything in her power to make sure that every community gets counted in the 2020 census.
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Social JusticeCan Donald Trump Actually Delay the 2020 Presidential Election?
Joe Biden is worried that Trump will try to delay the presidential election. Trump likely can’t do that — but that doesn’t mean voting will go off without a hitch in November.
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Social JusticeMississippi Case Challenges Lifetime Felon Voting Ban
This foster dad and Little League coach is fighting to restore voting rights in Mississippi for people with previous felony convictions like him.
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Social JusticeThis Teen Wants to Let 17 Year Olds Vote in the Primary Election
This soon-to-be 18-year-old will be eligible to vote in the November general election, but has no say in who the Democratic nominee will be. Now she’s fighting to change the law.
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Social JusticeHistorian Carol Anderson on How Voter Suppression Targets Students & Black People
From voter ID laws to gerrymandering, this author breaks down all the voter suppression tactics that keep students and Black people from casting their ballots.
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Social JusticeThis Restaurant Serves ‘Immigrant Food’ in Trump’s Backyard
This restaurant's unique menu lets customers buy lunch and donate to immigrant rights groups at the same time.
People in food deserts across the U.S. lack access to healthy food. We begin to address injustice when we interrupt this cycle, educate communities, and identify ways to expand access.
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Social JusticeDemo Day '19: Goodr
Since its founding in 2017, Goodr has helped businesses donate over one million pounds of surplus food to nonprofits that serve the people who need it.
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Fast CompanySweetgreen is redesigning school lunches to make them more healthy–and more fun
By next year, kids in 50 schools will get to design their own fresh, locally sourced lunches, Sweetgreen-style.
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New York TimesOp-Ed: Changing School Lunches
Schools and their cafeterias are fighting an uphill battle working with constrained budgets and trying to compete with junk food for students’ affections.
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ForbesUrban School Food Alliance And FoodCorps Partner For Better School Meals
The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of the nation’s 11 largest urban school districts, and FoodCorps, that focuses on building healthy school food environments, announced this week a partnership between the two nonprofits.
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The Washington PostFoodCorps steps in to help schools do what they couldn’t otherwise afford
FoodCorps targets a key weakness in the growing and ever-more-fashionable effort to teach children where food comes from and wean them off french fries and pizza in the cafeteria.
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Social JusticeIs Food Education the Key to Building Healthier, More Equitable Communities?
FoodCorps service member Emily Reckard on training the next generation of food justice advocates.
We are deeply committed to encouraging active civic participation at every level. This cornerstone of our democracy is both a right and an obligation.
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Social JusticeDemocracy’s Frontlines
These poll workers are ready to pass the baton of civic duty and ignite action across new generations and communities.
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Facing SouthWoke Vote: new film documents change in the South one vote at a time
DeJuana invited us to Birmingham in February 2018 for the first major gathering of Woke Vote supporters since the election, a conference that swelled with new allies inspired by the organizers' startling accomplishment.
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AL.comAfter raising $2 million to 'Woke' black millennial voters last year, Birmingham native targeting 2018 elections
If you've never heard of Woke Vote, it's probably because you're not African American. Or a millennial.
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AL.comActor Don Cheadle, in Birmingham for Woke Vote, 2018 Magic City Classic: ‘We can’t sit on our hands’
Sincerity doesn’t need a script.
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The AtlanticHow Grassroots Organizers Got Black Voters to the Polls in Alabama
The large African American turnout in the Senate election was the result of careful, deliberate work—and offers Democrats a roadmap for 2018.
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New York TimesBeing Poor Can Mean Losing a Driver’s License. Not Anymore in Tennessee.
Millions of Americans have had their driver’s licenses taken away not because they got drunk and got behind the wheel, or because they caused an accident and hurt someone: They lost their licenses because they were too poor to pay fines.
The U.S. criminal justice system was conceived of to support the process of redemption, renewal, and rehabilitation. Our policies and practices must reflect this opportunity.
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The Marshall ProjectThe Hardest Lesson on Tier 2C
Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school?
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New York TimesIn Fight Over Bail’s Fairness, a Sheriff Joins the Critics
A growing body of evidence shows that even a brief detention before trial can disrupt lives and livelihoods, make case outcomes worse and increase the likelihood that the defendant will commit future crimes.
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New York TimesHis Clients Weren’t Complaining. But the Judge Said This Lawyer Worked Too Hard.
Can a lawyer work too hard to defend a client? That all depends on who is paying the bill, a new lawsuit argues.
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Houston ChronicleHarris County reaches landmark settlement over ‘unconstitutional’ bail system
A long-awaited settlement in Harris County’s historic bail lawsuit won tentative approval Friday from all parties, setting up a possible end to a system that kept poor people behind bars on low-level charges while those with money could walk free.
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SlateFor an Increasing Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention, Learning Is Possible
A new program is trying to give young inmates a chance, but more teachers are needed.
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Seattle TimesWhen allowed extra time with books, jailed youths read and read — and read
In youth detention, books can be hard to come by. But when given the chance, young inmates gobble up novels like candy.
By improving access and tools to promote health, financial security, and well-being, we empower people to become self-reliant and, in turn, make their communities stronger.
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Social Justice
Navajo Nation: Empowering youth leaders
Partners in Health, and Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment, or COPE, have partnered with health care teams and community advocates in the Navajo Nation to develop a Youth Leadership program to address structural barriers to good health.
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CNNWhy Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer
Girls began queuing at their local school with their friends, waiting for their names to be called. It was 2013 and a new vaccine had arrived in Kanyirabanyana, a village in the Gakenke district of Rwanda.
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PoliticoWhat a medical school on a Rwandan hilltop can teach the United States
Doctors learn to treat patients without all the high-tech tools — and fairness and access are crucial.
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Devex.comTraining the next generation of global health leaders in Africa
Students around the world are putting on their caps and gowns for graduation ceremonies. Among them are 23 students from Rwanda and one from the U.S. who graduated as the first class of the University of Global Health Equity in Kigali, Rwanda
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Social JusticeA New Medical School Will Transform Care in Rwanda—and Beyond
The new campus at Rwanda’s University of Global Health Equity won’t just train the next generation of doctors in East Africa—it will advance the community health care model throughout Africa and across the world.
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Social JusticeTo Tear Down Racism, Build More Memorials
Equal Justice Initiative is building a productive model for confronting America's history of racial violence.