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  • Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations

    May 31, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans forced to work there during slavery and Jim Crow. Annual payments, taken from a fund set to grow at a sustainable rate, will go to the closest direct descendant of each Black worker. Fifteen descendants have received payments so far, but that number will likely grow as genealogists continue to search through records. The payments, along with efforts to build relationships with the families, are the Seminary’s way of acknowledging their role in the exploitation and recognizing the contributions of those forced to work there.

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  • The Group Turning Religious Leaders into LGBTQ Rights Crusaders

    May 31, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Mombasa

    Persons Marginalized and Aggrieved in Kenya works with religious leaders over the course of many years to build empathy and understanding towards the LGBTQ community. Faith leaders are often not immediately aware of the goal, but PEMA’s continuous and carefully orchestrated engagement allows them to gradually build relationships, hear personal stories from real people, and learn to preach tolerance. PEMA has worked with 619 religious leaders, 246 of which are currently active, and runs a Training of Trainers program where “converted” religious leaders train their colleagues to increase LGBTQ acceptance.

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  • D.C. police recruits are learning about Black history, go-go music and half-smokes. Leaders think it will make them better officers.

    May 29, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Unsuccessful at filling its police officer ranks with more people of color from the neighborhoods where they'll patrol, the D.C. police department takes its largely white recruit classes into those neighborhoods for lessons on local history and culture. Residents talk to the new officers about their need for safety but their fear and resentment of police abuses. They also educate them about local customs that outsiders might see as a threat until they have a deeper understanding of the culture.

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  • N.C. has vaccinated over 13,000 farmworkers. Advocates are making it happen.

    May 28, 2021 |

    Southerly |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Because of coordinated partnerships between local governments, state health departments, and nonprofit groups, more and more farmworkers are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations. Through the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Farmworker Health program and its partners, nearly 14,000 doses were administered to the farmworker community over two months. Advocates also have to dispel rumors and myths about the vaccines, but they are working to combat that misinformation and make it easier for them to get vaccinated.

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  • A Nantes, les femmes ont leur Citad'elles

    May 27, 2021 |

    ARTE |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: France, Nantes

    Citad’elles est un lieu d’accueil pour toutes les femmes victimes de violence, à Nantes. Ouvert depuis novembre 2019, il fonctionne 7 jours sur 7 et 24h sur 24. Sa spécificité est de réunir en un même lieu tous les services dont une victime peut avoir besoin : avocat, assistante sociale, psychologue... Pilote en France, il accueille plus de 80 femmes par semaine et pourrait servir de laboratoire pour d'autres villes françaises.

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  • People in Solitary Confinement and Volunteers Team Up to Garden, Imagine a World Without Prisons

    May 27, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The Solitary Gardens project started in New Orleans and has been copied in multiple other places as a combination art exhibit and therapeutic link between incarcerated people and the outside world. People on both sides of the prison walls collaborate in pairs to design a garden that grows flowers and herbs chosen by the incarcerated person. The gardens match the tiny dimensions of a solitary-confinement cell. The healing herbs are used to help others, and the exercise overall gives incarcerated people a sense of connection to the earth, part of the project's prison-abolition message.

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  • How well is Cure Violence working in St. Louis?

    May 26, 2021 |

    KSDK-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    While homicides in St. Louis in the first part of 2021 increased over already-high numbers in recent years, three neighborhoods served by a new Cure Violence program showed significant decreases in homicides, assaults, and robberies. Cure Violence, a national program, puts "violence interrupters" on the streets to intervene before arguments turn deadly and to provide people with services they need. In one neighborhood, Dutchtown, interrupters say they prevented 87 incidents in less than seven months. The city now is trying to find the money to expand the program to more areas of the city.

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  • Worker cooperatives prove your job doesn't have to be hell

    May 26, 2021 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    In service industries that traditionally pay and treat workers poorly, worker-owned cooperatives serve as a humane alternative. Worker-owners at eight co-ops in four states describe the difference their jobs make in their working conditions and their lives. They also tell how larger collectives and cooperatives pool resources to help smaller co-ops with the funding and expertise they need, especially when confronted by a disruptive event like the pandemic.

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  • Young People Are Digitally Rebuilding Tulsa's Black Wall Street

    May 26, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Urban Coders Guild provides STEM education opportunities to underrepresented communities and is working with local students to build websites for the businesses destroyed during the Tulsa Race Massacre. While none of the businesses operate today, the program builds awareness of the massacre while also teaching students coding skills to build websites. The course is also considered a “prep” course for the future because it teaches students how to interact with others as well as listen to and accept feedback from others. The group partnered with Tulsa Community College students to create the content and logos.

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  • 'Gang Contracts' in Cicero and Berwyn Schools Raise Concerns About Criminalization of Youth

    May 26, 2021 |

    Cicero Independiente |

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    Response Location: United States, Cicero, Illinois

    "Gang contracts" are used by many schools as a way to tell students they are suspected of gang activity and must avoid such activity or face discipline or expulsion. Gang contracts have been put to extensive use in the high schools and middle schools of two towns, Cicero and Berwyn, that underwent large demographic shifts toward more Latinx residents since the 1990s. Meant to make schools safer and put students on a better path, they have been based often on vague, unsubstantiated suspicions in Cicero and Berwyn. Critics cite evidence that young people are wrongly criminalized and denied educations.

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