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Health Care February 6, 2022

South African scientists on the inside story of discovering omicron – and what their experience offers the world about future variants. Podcast

By Gemma Ware, The Conversation and Daniel Merino, The Conversation [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] What is it like to discover a new coronavirus variant?…

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Social Justice and Equity February 4, 2022

What America’s voting rights activists can learn from past movements for civil rights

By Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] With Congress failing to pass new voting rights legislation, it’s worth remembering that…

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2022 Elections January 29, 2022

How this cycle of redistricting is making gerrymandered congressional districts even safer and undermining majority rule

By Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In a democracy, voters choose their political leaders. In a democracy that permits gerrymandering –…

2022 Elections January 29, 2022

Q & A with Wendy Davis, a Democratic candidate for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District

By Arielle Robinson Wendy Davis, a Democratic hopeful who is running to unseat Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, answered questions about her and her campaign for the…

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Social Justice and Equity January 25, 2022

The 13th Amendment’s fatal flaw created modern-day convict slavery

By Kwasi Konadu, Colgate University and Clifford C. Campbell, Dartmouth College [first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] The 13th Amendment is having a moment of reckoning. Considered one…

News Media January 24, 2022

Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better

By Taylor Dotson, New Mexico Tech [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] Entering the new year, Americans are increasingly divided. They clash not only over differing…

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Education January 18, 2022

More than masks and critical race theory – 3 tasks you should be prepared to do before you run for school board

By Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut [first published in The Conversation, used with permission] When people run for school board these days, they often are motivated to campaign on…

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Social Justice and Equity January 17, 2022

Black Americans mostly left behind by progress since Dr. King’s death

By Sharon Austin, University of Florida [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used with permission] On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee,…

Social Justice and Equity January 16, 2022

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.: 5 things I’ve learned curating the MLK Collection at Morehouse College

By Vicki Crawford, Morehouse College [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For the past 11 years, civil rights historian Vicki Crawford has worked as the director…

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Social Justice and Equity January 15, 2022

Racial and ethnic diversity is lacking among nonprofit leaders – but there are ways to change that

By Atinuke Adediran, Fordham University [This article first appeared in The Conversation. Used with permission] About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90%…

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South African scientists on the inside story of discovering omicron – and what their experience offers the world about future variants. Podcast

How this cycle of redistricting is making gerrymandered congressional districts even safer and undermining majority rule

Q & A with Wendy Davis, a Democratic candidate for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District

Fact-checking may be important, but it won’t help Americans learn to disagree better

More than masks and critical race theory – 3 tasks you should be prepared to do before you run for school board