In South Africa, COVID-19 compounds domestic violence crisis…and leaders fight back
By Kail Cohen October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. On average, every 60 seconds, twenty people are physically abused
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Rewriting 70,000 Individualized Education Plans puts Chicago Special Educators in a Bind
By Phoebe Rusch The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES), signed into law in late March, granted education
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Mapping Vulnerability in Puerto Rico
Click this link to view the interactive map of Puerto Rico created by Kelsey Rydland, Isabel Sophia Dieppa, Martha Bayne
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Self-identification or tribal membership: different paths to your tribe
It was a shock for Pam when she first learned she is a Native American. At eight years old, she was transferred to a new school. Huddling in a chair, sitting beside her younger sister, she felt insecure and embarrassed. When the teacher introduced this new student as an “American Indian,” Pam couldn’t believe what she heard.
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John Walt Foundation honors murdered rapper by investing in next generation of young Chicago artists
By Becky Dernbach After her son, hip-hop artist John Walt, was murdered in 2017, Nachelle Pugh started a foundation
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Artist Preetika Rajgariah presents a liberated self-portrait at Roots & Culture gallery
Artist Preetika Rajgariah navigates complex, and at times clashing, cultures. Her installations (on view now at Chicago’s Roots and Culture gallery) repurpose quotidian materials laden with cultural meanings, from saris to silver punk studs, to tease apart her intersecting identities.
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Chicago activists demand updates for two unsolved transgender murders, amidst national concerns
Chicago transgender activists are demanding an update from Chicago police about the murders of two black transgender women in the last two months, as recent news about a memo connected to President Donald Trump’s administration raises questions about transgender rights nationwide.
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