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  • HBCU student media confronts local news bias

    February 02, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Greensboro, North Carolina

    In 2018, The A&T Register, the online student-run newspaper for North Carolina A&T State University, the largest Black university in the country, conducted a media investigation. It examined the way local media wrote headlines that associated the university with crime. They examined headlines that fell into two categories; those that used the campus as a locator for crime, or headlines that based outdated affiliations. Then, the editor-in-chief, Alexis Wray, presented their findings to local outlets hoping to effect change. They did. Their investigation led to changes in future headlines.

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  • Youth incarceration fell when California required counties to pay more for juvenile detention: New research

    February 02, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    When a California law shifted the costs of incarcerating youth from the state to its counties, judges suddenly sent 40% fewer youth to state-run juvenile facilities. That reduction began a long-term trend that combined with a state commitment to evidence-based approaches to rehabilitation instead of punishment, especially for less-serious offenses. The end result is that state juvenile jails have been all but phased out of existence and California, a longtime tough-on-crime state, now has what one advocacy group considers the nation's most humane juvenile justice system.

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  • Displaced but not forgotten: Organisations delivering family planning services to Abuja's IDP camps

    February 02, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Covid-19 pandemic complicated health care for women living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Nigeria who already lacked access to family planning services and education, but collaborative efforts are working to change this. Through collective action, a group of non-profits worked together to create a one-day outreach event that provided education and trained community members to carry on the work.

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  • Au Togo, l'essor de fermes-écoles pour former les patrons de l'agroécologie de demain

    February 01, 2021 |

    Le Monde |

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    Response Location: Togo

    Au Togo, un réseau de 1 200 jeunes producteurs travaille à enseigner des pratiques agricoles durables sans engrais chimiques et avec de très bons rendements. Depuis trois ans, dix fermes se chargent de former, pendant trois mois, les futurs patrons de l’agriculture écologique et familiale de demain. Un modèle basé sur un apprentissage très pratique.

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  • The "Secret Handshake"—A Program Gifting Cannabis to Unhoused People

    February 01, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, the Sidewalk Project gives unhoused people gifts of marijuana to ease their anxiety and to show kindness. Since its start in the spring of 2020, the group has gifted gram-sized portions of weed nearly 1,000 times. The harm-reduction group gets its supply from growers who donate weed that isn't up to commercial-grade snuff. Evidence is mixed on whether marijuana is an effective antidote to opioid withdrawal symptoms, but Sidewalk says it has helped some by making them more relaxed. Personal use of marijuana is legal in California, with restrictions on quantities that can be transferred.

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  • One Case, Total Lockdown: Australia's Lessons for a Pandemic World

    February 01, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Australia, Sydney

    Australia's aggressive and strict protocols surrounding COVID-19 have helped the country to return to normalcy and avoid high death tolls and transmission rates, especially compared to the U.S. and Europe. Although the approach has included strict lockdowns, the community has reacted largely from a perspective of "short-term pain for collective gain."

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  • In a Mafia Stronghold, This Cooking School Is Stirring the Pot

    February 01, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Bianco, Calabria

    Italy's first tuition-free cooking school gives unemployed young people in the economically challenged region of Calabria a career path – and a culturally resonant alternative to working for the region's organized crime syndicate, the 'Ndrangheta. The school, Uno Chef per Elena e Pietro, surrounds cooking instruction with an appreciation for food culture and farming. Besides the extortion, kidnappings, and murder that the Calabrian Mafia uses, it also launders money by infiltrating farming and the food business.

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  • How New York's Vaccine Program Missed Black and Hispanic Residents

    February 01, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York’s vaccination effort has largely left out Black and Latino people due at least in part to the decision to use an online-based system for booking appointments. With the data to back this observation up, the government is actively working to increase vaccination rates within these communities by making changes including setting aside vaccine appointments in 33 high-risk areas.

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  • How New York Quietly Ended Its Street Drug War

    February 01, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    From 2009 through 2019, street arrests for drug possession and sales fell by 80% in New York City, sparing hundreds of thousands of people harsh incarceration terms while defying warnings that more lenient enforcement of low-level drug crimes would wreak havoc on the city. The reforms came about because of persistent advocacy by groups opposed to racially disparate enforcement and its social harms, as well as legislative and court-imposed limits on punishment and stop-and-frisk policing. Now ticketing rather than arrest is used far more often for all types of drugs.

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  • A Pioneering Welsh Housing Initiative For a Life in Ecological Harmony

    February 01, 2021 |

    Struggles from Below Magazine |

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    Response Location: Wales

    A housing initiative in Wales is combining affordable housing with ecological sustainability. The One Planet Development policy (OPD) gives residents an exemption to stringent countryside planning laws if they commit to a sustainable lifestyle. “There can be tension between affordable living and sustainability, but in the OPD we have an exemplar of low-impact, low-cost development.”

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