Tuesday, May 21, 2024

‘A Green New Deal, but for guns’: Parkland students propose groundbreaking gun policy

"If we require a license to drive a car, we should certainly require a license to own a gun."
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2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing Indigenous women & more at Native American forum

Exploring the candidates’ proposals to tackle issues affecting the Native American community, including the chronic murder and disappearance of Native American girls and women, land sovereignty, and generational trauma caused by colonialism.

For millions of dogs, South Korea is hell on Earth

Summer in South Korea brings the brutal Boknal “dog eating days,” when more than a million dogs are tortured and slaughtered for meat.

400 years after slavery’s start, no more band-aids

It’s time to heal the deep wounds of racism — not only to ensure equity for African Americans, but for our entire economy.
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2020 candidates address historical trauma, missing indigenous women & more at Native American forum

Following this week’s historic Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, we speak with Mark Trahant, editor of Indian...

Setting the historical record straight for the critics of the New York Times project...

Four hundred years after the event, the New York Times has published a special project focusing on the first Africans arriving in 1619...

Back to thoughts and prayers: Donald Trump abandons support for enhanced background checks

"It's the people that pull the trigger, it's not the gun that pulls the trigger."
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Meet Alvaro Enciso, the artist placing crosses in Sonoran desert to memorialize migrant deaths

More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to...

Racism v public health

“Racism is a threat to public health,” says medical professional (Physician Assistant, Preventative Cardiology) Leslie Gregory. Huh?  How...

CEO pay is up nearly 1000% over the last four decades

"The economy would suffer no harm if CEOs were paid less (or taxed more)."