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An NFL Team’s Revolutionary Approach To Helping A Neighborhood

An experimental jobs program hopes to end the stigma around new sports stadiums. by Corinne Cummings

Here’s What Happens When Stores Carry Books By Women, People Of Color — And No One Else

79% of people in publishing identify as white — and so are a lot of our fictional “good guys.” by Anya Alvarez

The Killings Of Black Men Are More Likely To Be Labelled ‘Justifiable’ Who gets to decide which murders are reasonable? How a quirk of legalese placed millions of black Americans in jeopardy.

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Tasbeeh Herwees
Trump’s Transgender Ban Is Just Bad Strategy ‘Our military is the best fighting force in the history of this planet because of all of these changes, not despite them.’ The U.S. military can be a quietly progressive institution — and we need all the able-bodied fighters we can get.

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Rebekah Sager
This Black Lives Matter Founder Still Has Hope For America If we want to heal, Patrisse Cullors says we can start by believing people of color when they say the system is designed to destroy them But after Charlottesville, there are no more excuses for not getting involved.

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Liz Dwyer

80% Of America's Teachers Are White It’s not just students of color who benefit from a diverse teaching force In an ideal world, a teacher’s race shouldn’t matter. But this is not an ideal world.

Education

Liz Dwyer
I Walked Past A Confederate Monument For 15 Years And Never Noticed Los Angeles may be a bastion of bleeding-heart liberalism — but it also burned twice after brutally racist acts The discovery of the memorial in Hollywood Forever Cemetery proves there really is no racial nirvana.

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Liz Dwyer
A Gold Medal Olympian Says That Youth Athletes Need To Hear Our Voices She was the first gymnast to stand up against USA Gymnastics for inappropriate behavior. ”Most parents are good and well-meaning, but they have no clue.”

Sports

Kristin Marguerite Doidge

It’s Been Three Years Since Michael Brown Died. A New Film Demands Justice Documentarians Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan make a powerful plea for action in ‘Whose Streets?’ “White people haven't rearranged how they think about us.”

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Tasbeeh Herwees
Affirmative Action Has Been Under Fire For 40 Years. Here's Why Diversity Always Wins “We can't be a prosperous democracy and leave the growing talent pool on the sidelines” Regression is a losing strategy.

Education

Joseph Williams
Early 2000s Tabloid Gossip Gets The Museum Treatment A 19-year-old’s ode to the Ugg years celebrates a time when our dumb president couldn’t tweet — and it was still possible to shock America A love letter to a trashier — and more innocent — age.

Culture

Tasbeeh Herwees

What It’s Like Being A Latino Muslim In America “We are optimistic, and this is an opportunity to let people know who we are.”

Communities

Rebekah Sager
Beirut Is Blocking Its World Famous Beaches From The People Who Actually Live There How activists in Lebanon are trying to reclaim public beaches for everyday citizens Private development is diminishing public space.

The Planet

Abby Sewell
If Football Is Deadly, Why Do We Still Watch? New research finds brain trauma in 87% of players.

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John Affleck

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