Scientists Are Discovering How Trauma Can Be Inherited
Traumatic experiences can be shared across generations. Is there a way to stop the legacy of pain? A boy and his baby brother hide in the forest for months, sleeping…
How Do We Remember Victims of Mass Murder? A Holocaust Survivor’s Daughter on How She Honors Her Family
BY HELEN EPSTEIN JANUARY 24, 2020IDEASEpstein is the editor of her late mother’s memoir Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival, to be published by Penguin in March 2020. She’s the author of Children…
The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an ‘Aberration’
From mass incarceration to mass deportation, our nation remains in deep denial. By Michelle Alexander Opinion Columnist Jan. 17, 2020 Protesters in Baltimore in the aftermath of Freddie Gray’s death in…
Controversial group divides black Americans in fight for economic equality
Reparations and the lingering racial wealth gap have been conversations largely within the black American community. Both issues have received wider attention of late, particularly among the current crop of…
Meet the teenage change-makers making waves at Davos 2020
19 Jan 2020 Greta Thunberg is part of a young generation fighting to change the world. For the first time ever, a group of teenage change-makers will take part in…
In Memoriam of Felipe Michelini – An unforgettable leader in the fight for justice, truth and human rights
On 19 April 2020, Dr. Felipe Michelini passed away in his hometown Montevideo, Uruguay, due to complications following a tragic domestic accident that occurred on 7 April. Felipe Michelini was…
Who Signs Up to Fight? Makeup of U.S. Recruits Shows Glaring Disparity
More and more, new recruits come from the same small number of counties and are the children of old recruits. By Dave Philipps and Tim Arango COLORADO SPRINGS — The sergeant in charge…
Kelly Fraser, Canadian Inuit Singer, Is Dead at 26
By The Associated Press Published Dec. 29, 2019 Updated Jan. 6, 2020 Kelly Fraser, a Canadian singer who gained attention for an Inuit-language cover of Rihanna’s song “Diamonds,” died on Dec. 24 in…
SAVING OUR ALLIES
Last week, the House overwhelmingly passed in a 407-16 vote the Afghan Allies Act, which will authorize an additional 8,000 special immigrant visas for our Afghan allies. This bill would remove burdensome application…
Piecing Together One Family’s Holocaust History Global Film Screening and Live Discussion (Virtual Event)
After fleeing Nazism, many Jews concealed their identities to survive and protect their loved ones. Following the war, these Holocaust survivors and their descendants struggled to find those left behind.…