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Sesame Street Changed My Life. We Must Protect It So It Can Mold More Kids’ Lives.
Sep 7, 2019
Sesame Street Changed My Life. We Must Protect It So It Can Mold More Kids’ Lives.
Sep 7, 2019

Bobbi Dempsey

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Co-published with HuffPost. We need to support Sesame Street to ensure the show is available to all children, especially for kids from backgrounds like mine, or we will lose what we began to achieve a half-century ago.

Sep 7, 2019
Let’s Push the Language of Journalism Past Its Limits
Sep 6, 2019
Let’s Push the Language of Journalism Past Its Limits
Sep 6, 2019

Alissa Quart

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Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. When words and traditional genres fail us, what other techniques might journalists deploy to break through the thicket of bigoted remarks and familiar stories of misery?

Sep 6, 2019
I Took in a Homeless Couple. Would You?
Sep 1, 2019
I Took in a Homeless Couple. Would You?
Sep 1, 2019

Annabelle Gurwitch

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Co-published with The Los Angeles Times. What had I been thinking when I invited a young homeless couple — and their pet rabbit — into my house?

Sep 1, 2019
Many Minorities Avoid Seeking Credit Due to Generations of Discrimination. Why That Keeps Them Back.
Sep 1, 2019
Many Minorities Avoid Seeking Credit Due to Generations of Discrimination. Why That Keeps Them Back.
Sep 1, 2019

Lori Teresa Yearwood

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Published by CNBC. Decades of discrimination by the government and America’s financial institutions has induced an almost trauma-like response in many people of color, making them less likely to seek credit.

Sep 1, 2019
Labor Day Is a Government Scam
Aug 30, 2019
Labor Day Is a Government Scam
Aug 30, 2019

Kim Kelly

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Co-published with Teen Vogue. Even if Labor Day wasn’t intended to be a rip-off, it sure is now.

Aug 30, 2019
Don't Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers
Aug 28, 2019
Don't Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers
Aug 28, 2019

Tom Lewandowski

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Co-published with OtherWords. When workers can’t organize or speak out, their lives—and ours—may be at risk.

Aug 28, 2019
An Accessible Neighborhood Needs Parks
Aug 28, 2019
An Accessible Neighborhood Needs Parks
Aug 28, 2019

Alysia Abbott

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Co-published with Curbed. For many families like mine—with members who are on the spectrum or have other sensory or mental disorders—parks and playgrounds are vitally important.

Aug 28, 2019
In Public Letter, 10 Boston City Councilors Decry 'Chilling Effect' Of Boston Calling Decision
Aug 21, 2019
In Public Letter, 10 Boston City Councilors Decry 'Chilling Effect' Of Boston Calling Decision
Aug 21, 2019

Jerome Campbell

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Co-published with WBUR. Boston city councilors say nonprofits and unions have been hesitant to work with their offices since two former mayoral aides were found guilty of federal extortion charges.

Aug 21, 2019
The Fight Against Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy
Aug 14, 2019
The Fight Against Trump’s Other Family Separation Policy
Aug 14, 2019

E. Tammy Kim

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Co-published with The New York Review of Books. The Trump administration’s plan to terminate the Temporary Protected Status program, if successful, will separate more than a quarter million citizen children from their immigrant parents.

Aug 14, 2019
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