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Donna Ladd writes that she and nonprofit news founders Lisa McCray-Snowden and Karen Gadbois know they must challenge the status quo inside media.
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Donna Ladd writes that she and nonprofit news founders Lisa McCray-Snowden and Karen Gadbois know they must challenge the status quo inside media.
“Institutions of higher education play a unique role in shaping an aging world,” David R. Buys and Aaron Guest write. “In 2012, a group of interdisciplinary scholars met to establish the 10 principles of an age-friendly university.”
Elizabeth Stites, a scholar of conflict, violence and humanitarianism at Tufts University’s Feinstein International Center, explains what’s behind the rise in aid worker attacks and the implications of the World Central Kitchen workers’ deaths.
Duvalier Malone writes that state leaders need to rightly address the underfunding of HBCUs in order to ensure education equity across the nation.
“The ancient Maya were arguably one of the greatest sky-watching societies. Accomplished mathematicians, they recorded systematic observations on the motion of the Sun, planets and stars,” Kimberly H. Breuer writes.
Several bills that could have grown democracy in Mississippi died as the state House and Senate killed each other’s proposals.
Roger Amos writes about his Indigenous ancestors’ solar eclipse tales as the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse event approaches.Â
Author and former educator Sean Brown responds to the death of Senate Bill 2726, which could have possibly been a threat to Mississippi HBCUs.
“As the Arctic warms, its mighty rivers are changing in ways that could have vast consequences—not only for the Arctic region but for the world,” Michael A. Rawlins and Ambarish Karmalkar write.
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