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  • Can 30,000 Cameras Help Solve Chicago's Crime Problem?

    May 26, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Using advanced data, cameras, and innovative mapping, Chicago is hoping to finally solve crime in the city. Hidden sensors like ShotSpotter and crime forecasting software HunchLab are being used to turn massive amounts of data into usable information for law enforcement officers, but concerns about privacy and surveillance are prevalent.

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  • When Tamara Parson began fighting for inclusion in central Ohio, nobody listened. Now, that's changing.

    May 23, 2018 |

    The Lily |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Vernon, Ohio

    After an incident where a Latino teen was hurled into the ground by white teenagers, and they put a noose around his neck, Tamara Parson jumped into action. She started by organizing town halls with panels made up of people of color. Then that led to the creation of the Diversity Coalition of Knox County. Later, she teamed up with her pastor and created a six week long course titled Overcoming Racism. "It got people thinking about what experience minorities had here. It brought a spotlight to a lot of the diversity that already existed in our community.”

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  • The simple voting reform that raises turnout wherever it's tried

    May 23, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    Voting is easy when a ballot arrives in your mailbox. Vote-at-home increases turnout in all precincts and elections in which it’s available. It significantly outperforms all combinations of other innovations such as absentee ballots, early in-person voting, same-day registration and election-day registration.

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  • Towaoc Had No Running Water in the 1970s. Now it Does, and the Tribe Irrigates a Farm. What Changed?

    May 22, 2018 |

    KSJD |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A green oasis sits amongst desert land in southwest Colorado, but this swath of Ute Mountain land wasn't always so fortunate. Thanks in large part to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe leveraging their sovereignty, a settlement led to federal funding for canals, pipelines and the construction of the McPhee reservoir.

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  • Displaced Sri Lankans defy military to reclaim homeland

    May 18, 2018 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Iranaitheevu

    26 years after being displaced from their land, hundreds of Tamil civilians orchestrated a plan that defied the Sri Lankan navy to return to their homeland. “Over 100 community members are now living on the island. Other plans to arrive in the coming months.”

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  • How Southern organizers are leading the movement to end money bail

    May 17, 2018 |

    Scalawag |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    The organization Southerners on New Ground is helping reform the criminal justice system in the south. Activists won a small victory in Atlanta, where the mayor and city council approved a resolution that replaced cash bonds with signature bonds for misdemeanor offenses. They also raised money to help people pay their cash bails as part of a larger event called the National Bail Out collective, which bailed out 147 Black women in 26 cities this year.

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  • Everyone is welcome: the only gay hangout in the Arab world

    May 17, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Lebanon, Beirut

    From giving refuge to offering makeup sessions, Helem is an umbrella for some of Lebanon’s most marginalised people

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  • U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here's what some are — and some aren't — doing about it.

    May 15, 2018 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States

    A lack of diversity in the environment and conservation sector has been well calculated, documented and established, but the story doesn't end there. Many groups across the U.S are looking to not just recruit a more diverse population, but actually change organizational culture. "“We learned we need to be intentional about change, not just well-intended,” Jamie Williams, President of The Wilderness Society explains, as one group working to achieve this change.

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  • Human Biases Are Built into AI—this Artist Is Helping to Change That

    May 15, 2018 |

    Artsy |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A diverse group of people developing, coding, and testing artificial intelligence technologies is critical as the inherent biases of the creators can be found in the AI. Artist Stephanie Dinkins is working to raise awareness of the role AI plays in daily life, the narrow stream of data and perspective informing most AI, and the value of diversity in AI development.

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  • Raising babies behind bars

    May 11, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Decatur, Illinois

    Nursery programs inside prisons are not common. The Decatur Correctional Center is one of the few in the country. Eleven years since its inception, “more than 90 women have gone through the Moms and Babies program.”

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