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In Iowa, A Commitment To Make Prison Work Better For Women

Joseph Shapiro

October 17, 2018 |

NPR |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Iowa

At the Iowa Correctional Institution For Women officials are shifting how they deal with inmates, who have been punished at higher rates than inmates in men’s prisons for things like being disruptive. It’s part of a trend in 15 states called gender-responsive corrections that recognizes the role of trauma in many women’s lives and that they are less likely to be violent. It means more freedom to move around, no full strip searches and fewer punishments for minor violations.

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How a Booming City Can Be More Equitable

Barry Yeoman

October 15, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

Durham, North Carolina works to maintain diversity of communities and perspectives by evaluating the inequities built into their current housing laws and economic opportunities. In redevelopment planning, the city also incorporates artists and activists into planning to ensure the city doesn't lose diversity of culture in its renewal plans.

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To Help Immigrants Feel Safer Around Police, Some Churches Start Issuing IDs

Laurel Wamsley

October 11, 2018 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is set to start issuing parishioner ID cards in a program modeled off a similar one in Texas. The ID cards include a name, address, and birth date and are meant for undocumented immigrants to feel safer around law enforcement.

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Ghetto Film School Trains Its Lens on Hollywood's Diversity Problem

Laura Holson

October 05, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Founded in the Bronx in 2000, the Ghetto Film School’s mission is to train a diverse student body in the skills of making narrative film. Eighteen years later, the school teaches classes in New York, Los Angeles, and London, and has become a pipeline for graduates to find work not only as directors or writers but also in film crews and production companies.

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For Chinese high-schoolers, there's value to living and learning in Iowa

Simon Montlake

October 04, 2018 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Iowa

In the past decade, an increasing number of Chinese students have enrolled in American public schools in smaller towns, including in Clinton, Iowa. The trend serves as an important exchange program for both parties and fills the empty seats in towns where populations continue to decline.

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The Foreigner

Catalina May

October 02, 2018 |

Radio Ambulante |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Chile, Coihueco

In 2016 an influx of Haitian immigrants start migrating to Chile. In Coihueco, a small rural town in Chile, they are met with open arms. Towns people organize to find them shelter, raise funds so they can bring over their families, and coalesce to make the town welcoming and supportive. In contrast a slew of racists incidents plague the capital, and the Chilean government changes their immigration laws, making it difficult for Haitian immigrants to settle in the country.

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78207: America's Most Radical School Integration Experiment

Beth Hawkins

September 25, 2018 |

The 74 |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

In just three years, San Antonio superintendent Pedro Martinez has raised the bar for school integration efforts nationwide - in this time, the district, where 93 percent of students qualify for free or reduced price lunch, has opened 31 schools of choice that are "diverse-by-design." The curriculum, which ranges from talented and gifted to dual language programs, is intended to attract more affluent students from surrounding areas to fill 25 percent of the classroom spots. Journalist Beth Hawkins says, "In 20 years of writing about failed integration efforts, I’ve never seen anything like this."

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Magazine in Greece Rejects Labels about Refugees

Nikolia Apostolou John Dyer

September 21, 2018 |

Al-Fanar Media |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: Greece

In order to combat xenophobic attitudes against refugees in Europe, three friends founded Solomon; a media outlet that “gives voice to non-native populations, countering negative stereotypes about them and helping them integrate into their new communities.” Recent grants have helped the magazine expand and pay staff. “We’re not like other media that focuses on refugees’ selling their bodies or selling drugs. We go with our camera and write about integration.”

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Alternative museum tours explore colonial loot, biased narratives

Aditya Iyer

September 16, 2018 |

Al Jazeera |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: England, London

Uncomfortable art tours, long-term loans, and code of conducts, are all methods Europeans museums are using to confront the racist history behind paintings and artifacts in their exhibitions. They’re also trying to confront the unjust methods in which some artifacts have been taken from non-European countries. “While museums continue to argue that they are neutral spaces, the fact is that they are not. There is always one side of the story that has been privileged over the other in these spaces, and we need to be more honest and open about that.”

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Maternity Care Gets a Racial Justice Focus

A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez

September 07, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Mamatoto Village is a maternal health group that offers services to women of color. The aim of the group is to address racial inequality in healthcare and level the playing field to give women of color access to services. Last year the group served almost 500 women, the vast majority of which gave birth vaginally and initiated breastfeeding.

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