The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost…
When local government officials of Ziebice, a small Polish village, looked up at one of the most prominent evangelist churches, they knew it was on its last legs. After standing…
President Donald Trump “came after our family,” the angry wife of decorated Iraq war veteran Alexander Vindman said Friday in a dramatic new political ad. “The first time I felt threatened was just after…
As COVID-19 disproportionately devastates Black communities, seven in ten African Americans say people are treated unfairly based on race or ethnicity when they seek medical care. AFRICAN AMERICANS HAVE a dim…
WHAT TO KNOW TODAY Chicago’s gun violence plan looks good on paper, prevention leaders say. Can the city pull it off? Violence prevention leaders, researchers, and funders told my colleague Lakeidra…
Carlos Yalibat, a student at California State University, Northridge, whose parents are from Guatemala, in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020. An extraordinary demographic shift is sweeping through US…
TopicBLENDED VOICES: A traumatized AfricaDescriptionA history of torture and trauma in our continentAfrica’s relationship to torture, war trauma and violence spans across time, reflectedin the continent’s history of precolonial conflict,…
The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), the Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) and the Library at the University of Johannesburg invite you to join…
Updated 13 October On World Mental Health Day, 10 October, the World Health Organization hosted, for the first time ever, a global online advocacy event on mental health. At this event—the Big…
In contrast to vital records, family photos do not impart clear, standardized information and have always posed a genealogical challenge. In 2019, amateur genealogist and data scientist Scott Genzer developed a technique…