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  • A Mariachi Family

    January 03, 2021 |

    Daily Emerald |

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    Response Location: United States, Springfield, Oregon

    Springfield High School's mariachi program creates a cultural bridge between generations and offers opportunities for high school students to learn about and share their culture. The school’s Mariachi Del Sol began in 2008 as just the second ethnically diverse music program in the state. Open to any student playing any instrument, it has grown significantly over the years and now offers a beginning and advanced class. The advanced class performs publicly, including an annual gig at Disneyland. The program's popularity led other schools throughout the state to offer mariachi to their students.

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  • 'Where Are The Women?': Uncovering The Lost Works Of Female Renaissance Artists

    January 02, 2021 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Italy

    Advancing Women Artists (AWA) is a nonprofit foundation that has identified around 2,000 pieces of art by women artists that were forgotten or stored away in Italy’s museums and churches. The organization has financed the restoration of 70 works from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Although women generally couldn’t study or devote themselves to art, some of the artists’ works were known during their times but disappeared from public writings around the 19th century. AWA’s work restoring, documenting, and exhibiting women’s art has contributed to increased interest in and awareness of art by women.

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  • How a German organisation tackles anti-Semitism in schools

    December 31, 2020 |

    The Caravan |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Meet A Jew is a volunteer organization in Germany helping combat anti-semitism and bigotry by educating students in elementary and secondary schools about Jewish culture and traditions of those living in Germany. The organization has about three hundred volunteers from a variety of different backgrounds, who then hold 90-minute sessions where students are welcomed to ask anything.

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  • How This New App Can Teach You About Forgotten Histories

    December 31, 2020 |

    Plea for the Fifth |

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    Response Location: United States, Staten Island, New York

    The Staten Island African American Heritage Tour is a website and mobile app that offers virtual tours of Staten Island’s Black History, which was oftentimes intentionally erased from the city's historical accounts. The tours are based on genealogical and historical investigations and the app was tested by local students for user-friendliness. The students were empowered to learn about their own histories and reported that their knowledge of local histories expanded. Five days after the website launched, before the app was public, there were already hundreds of local and international unique users.

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  • How New York City Vaccinated 6 Million People in Less Than a Month

    December 18, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    When a smallpox outbreak was deemed to be a likelihood in New York City in 1947, the city’s health commissioner rapidly launched a vaccination campaign that leveraged internal collaboration, consistent and transparent communication, and contact tracing. The effort culminated in more than six million people receiving vaccination in under a month, and only 12 infections and two deaths total. While this "public health triumph" hold lessons for the current COVID-19 pandemic, experts caution, “It’s almost inconceivable that we’re going to be able to do something similar as rapidly and as effectively.”

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  • An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires

    December 17, 2020 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Indigenous Peoples Burn Network, is a collaboration of Native nations, academic researchers, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that advocate for and train fire-lighters in the indigenous practices of controlled forest burns. Under careful supervision, fire-lighters spread lines of fire beneath trees to create fuel-free areas and protect old growth trees from burning. Controlled burns preserve resources that are part of Native cultures, encourage and protect wildlife and biodiversity, and decrease the frequency of largescale, out-of-control forest fires.

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  • Homicides dropped after Philly gangs signed a 1974 peace pact. What can we learn from the org that brokered the truce?

    December 14, 2020 |

    Billy Penn |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The House of Umoja in West Philadelphia, created in the late 1960s in response to high rates of gang violence, succeeded in helping thousands of young men through a residential treatment program, mediating disputes peacefully, and brokering a gang truce credited with lowering Philadelphia violence in the 1970s. The program was based on Afrocentric customs and family structure (its name means unity in Swahili). The grandson of the founders is now trying to revive the home as part of the city's multiple anti-violence initiatives.

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  • Fighting COVID-19 with Ancestral Wisdom in the Amazon

    December 11, 2020 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Response Location: Siekopai, Ecuador

    The Siekopai people have used plants and herbal remedies to treat diseases for years. As the COVID-19 pandemic entered their community, they turned to the ancient medicine of their ancestors to help combat symptoms of the virus and boost the immune system.

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  • How Canada's first Indigenous coast guard program is already saving lives

    December 10, 2020 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: First Nations of British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia

    The Canadian Coast Guard is building a working relationship with indigenous communities that live on the coast of British Columbia, in order to better coordinate rescue efforts. The indigenous tribes "have intimate knowledge of the geography, which allows them to expertly respond to emergencies on the water." The result has been the formation of the Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary.

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  • How a program to support Latino caregivers may have discovered a new wave of patients

    December 07, 2020 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Chicago-based Latino Alzheimer's and Memory Disorders Alliance (LAMDA) has helped connect "Latinos who have memory diseases with clinical support" by focusing on creating connections and using memory-health surveys. The program relies on bicultural community health promoters who are embedded within the community and visit places such as health fairs, nursing home lobbies and churches to offer resources and "conduct memory tests and evaluations on at-risk elders."

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