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Beverly Bell

October 11, 2015

Black Farmers’ Lives Matter: Defending African-American land and agriculture in the Deep South

The 2015 U.S. Food Sovereignty Prize goes to two organizations that are demonstrating just how much Black lives matter, as they defend their ancestral lands for community-controlled food production. The...

Mohammad Syed

October 6, 2015

Students Should Stand for Labor Rights

There are three things you should consider before putting a Wendy’s burger in your mouth. First, you’re getting roughly 830 calories from the burger alone. Second, the 50 grams of...

Kit Rafferty

October 3, 2015

Trailer Park Residents Victims of Gentrification

Thanks for bringing attention to the tragic underbelly of gentrification in Miami. At South Florida Voices for Working Families, we have been assisting the residents of Little Farm mobile home...

Joan Lamunyon Sanford

October 1, 2015

The Matter of Choice: Give women the right to control their own care

The Hyde Amendment, which was 39 years old Wednesday, puts many women in the position of choosing between their health and their family’s economic security. Since the passage of the...

Lynda Waddington

September 21, 2015

The Changing Face of Rural America: Young conference attendees hope to build more inclusive communities

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asked to create a mental image of the people most likely to participate in a national rural conference, few would imagine Kendall Bilbrey. And, actually, that’s the...

Laura Olah

September 16, 2015

Conservation Potential at Badger

There is a heavy hand at work when land use planners at the DNR propose on/off road motorcycles through a prairie teeming with grassland birds. In a conservation plan that...

Allison Pohle

September 16, 2015

Will Massachusetts Pass a Bill for Free Community College?

Amongst the dozens of people who crammed into a room at the State House to testify about higher education bills Wednesday, one demographic was noticeably absent — students. Still, Natalie...

Rachel M. Cohen

September 14, 2015

Welcome to the Courtroom That Is Every Renter’s Nightmare

Baltimore created the nation’s first rent court to help poor tenants, but today, the court is yet another obstacle to fair, affordable housing. Deborah Jennings lives in a house in...

Alan Gomez

September 5, 2015

Photo of Drowned Syrian Child Reminder of US Border Deaths

The flashbacks came pouring in when Enrique Morones first saw the photo of a young Syrian child who had washed up on a Turkish beach after drowning in the Mediterranean...

Alex AuBuchon

September 3, 2015

An Awful Lot Like Prison: Immigrant Detainees in Etowah County

In many respects, Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama is just like any other county jail. But for 300 or so of the facility's occupants, it's a different story...

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Black Farmers’ Lives Matter: Defending African-American land and agriculture in the Deep South

Students Should Stand for Labor Rights

Trailer Park Residents Victims of Gentrification

The Matter of Choice: Give women the right to control their own care

The Changing Face of Rural America: Young conference attendees hope to build more inclusive communities

Conservation Potential at Badger

Will Massachusetts Pass a Bill for Free Community College?

Welcome to the Courtroom That Is Every Renter’s Nightmare

Photo of Drowned Syrian Child Reminder of US Border Deaths

An Awful Lot Like Prison: Immigrant Detainees in Etowah County

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