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  • Michigan's New Clean-Slate Law Makes State a Leader in Criminal Justice Reform

    January 27, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    A new law in Michigan will automatically expunge misdemeanors and felonies after several years, making it easier to find employment for those who have a record. The automatic nature of the expungement removes the barriers of cost and time for successfully completing the long application process. A clean slate makes it easier for people to improve their lives through better housing and higher pay, leading to lower rates of recidivism.

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  • St. Louisans Mapped Monuments of Their City, and Uncovered Surprising Connections

    January 27, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    When the Public Iconographies project asked people in St. Louis "how would you map the monuments of St. Louis?", it got 750 hand-drawn maps telling stories of often-overlooked sites throughout the city. By letting people from the community determine what is important, the project ended up with a data-filled report channeling freeform responses. They included the spot where a Ferguson police officer killed Michael Brown, the site of a 1917 race riot, and Cahokia Mounds, a pre-Columbian site in the city. The project formed a counterpoint to efforts to remove problematic symbols, like a Columbus statue.

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  • These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer

    January 27, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    With many women skipping routine mammograms due to COVID-19 restrictions, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital are using an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify those at risk for developing breast cancer. The approach has proved successful in multiple instances, with those flagged by the algorithm three times as likely to develop cancer. “What the AI tools are doing is they're extracting information that my eye and my brain can't,” a doctor using the tool explained.

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  • ‘You are not alone': How the Akron-Canton Foodbank is tackling food insecurity during COVID-19

    January 27, 2021 |

    The Devil Strip |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank battled food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic by distributing groceries directly to consumers rather than its previous role of supplying other charities. Ohio National Guard members helped distribute food using a contactless pickup line where they put bags of food in the trunks of cars. Hundreds, sometimes over 1,000 cars were served a day.

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  • Is D.C. Finally on the Brink of Statehood?

    January 27, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    51 for 51 is an advocacy group fighting for DC statehood by educating people about DC residents’ taxation without representation and training advocates in other states, mostly young people, to lobby their senators to support a statehood bill. Organizers also bird-dogged democratic presidential candidates for a public pledge of support for statehood, which 18 did. The group has also gained new support for ending the filibuster, which is needed to pass a statehood bill in the Senate. Support for statehood is at its highest, with a bill passing the House of Representatives for the first time in June 2020.

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  • How Hawaii is trying to save Haena State Park, a Kauai tourist hotspot that's been loved to death

    January 27, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Kauai, Hawaii

    Hawaii’s North Shore has implemented a plan to embrace a model of tourism that would respect the land, minimize any damage, and create a better community for native residents. Regenerative tourism helped stabilize a fragile ecosystem and will hopefully continue to protect Haena State Park when international travel resumes after the pandemic.

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  • Harnessing People Power to Protect Alaska's Last Remaining Wilderness

    January 27, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    A viral campaign from Indigenous activists, TikTok creators, and documentary filmmakers led to about 6.3 million letters being sent to federal agencies encouraging them to halt fossil fuel development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. They created social media content and a toolkit for creators to use on their platforms that made it easy for the message to spread.

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  • Queens Prosecutors Long Overlooked Misconduct. Can a New D.A. Do Better?

    January 27, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    On her first day as district attorney of Queens, Melinda Katz created a unit to review potential wrongful convictions that in its first year has exonerated four men and has 80 more cases under review. The Queens DA's office long resisted the national trend toward such "conviction integrity" units, based on its contention that all prosecutors should be open to fixing their mistakes. The office, however, showed little inclination to do so systematically. Katz put the new unit under the control of a former lawyer with the Innocence Project and showed a resolve to take claimed injustices more seriously.

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  • How Promotoras De Salud Are Fighting Vaccine Conspiracies In Chicago's Latino Communities

    January 26, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Promotoras de salud, also known as community health workers, are helping to connect Latino immigrants with reliable and factual information about COVID-19. Using a peer-to-peer outreach model, a team of seven promotoras de salud from Centro San Bonifacio have "interacted with more than 4,000 Spanish speakers in Chicago."

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  • The spacesuits saving mothers' lives

    January 26, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Doctors have created a pressure garment that prevents women from dying from obstetric hemorrhage during childbirth. Modeled after the NASA spacesuit, the product was far from ideal when first envisioned in 1969 and went through several iterations over many years. Now, the garment has been successfully tested with a 50 percent reduction in mortality rate and is used around the world.

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