“500 young people from across the world take center stage at the 21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival for a week of workshops, poetry slam, performances, and civic engagement from July 18 – 21, 2018 in Houston, TX. Brave New Voices brings the world’s leading young poets together to slam, dream,…
“We continue our interview with A.C. Thompson, a correspondent for Frontline PBS and reporter for ProPublica. His new investigation is titled Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. He discusses how he was there in Portland, Oregon, when anti-racist, anti-fascist protesters faced off against members of the far-right-wing group “Patriot Prayer” during a protest and counterprotest Saturday. Hours into…
“White supremacists gathered in Washington, D.C., on Sunday for a rally to mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly “Unite The Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia, during which 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed. They were outnumbered by a coalition of hundreds of counterprotesters. NewsHour’s P.J. Tobia joins Hari Sreenivasan for more.” Watch more at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
“Activism has interested Lucinda for as long as she can remember, but it never seemed like the right time for her to take action. When she found herself, as a high school student in America, wrapped up in the vicious debate over gun control, she knew that it had become necessary to get involved. Everyone…
“California relies on thousands of prisoners, including many women, to battle the wildfires burning statewide. Prisoner firefighters gain training and earn time off of their sentences for good behavior, typically two days off for each day served. But critics of the program say the state is exploiting prisoners’ eagerness to earn time for early release….
“Ohio Republican Troy Balderson carried on Tuesday night as if he had won the special House election, but his lead is razor-thin over Democrat Danny O’Connor in a traditionally red district. In Kansas, Trump-backed GOP gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach has the smallest of leads over the state’s Gov. Jeff Colyer. William Brangham talks with Kyle…
The mission of Palacio Magazine is to engage citizens and provide them a platform where they can share their stories and ideas. We hope that empowers them to join together to transform Long Beach. We recently attended the People’s State of the City and asked attendees one question: What is the one idea that would engage and…
“We need to separate fact from fiction about MS-13. It’s one of Trump’s favorite talking points: how the gang MS-13 is taking advantage of loose immigration laws and spreading violence and drugs. But is the gang really invading the country, and is it a growing problem? In our latest Vox + ProPublica collaboration, we break…
“http://www.bravenewvoices.org 500 young people from across the world take center stage at the 21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival for a week of workshops, poetry slam, performances, and civic engagement from July 18 – 21, 2018 in Houston, TX. Brave New Voices brings the world’s leading young poets together to slam,…
Okay, I am half-Dominican and half-Puerto Rican and I should know a lot more about Dominican food, especially since my mother who was Dominican did all the cooking. But, while she would occasionally mix it in, I’m sure most of what she cooked was Puerto Rican food in deference to my father. However, there are…