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Can Art Provide Justice When Courts Fail? "Having not been a judge or a witness who could've helped communicate what Michael Dunn did, my art is the only way I can give Jordan Davis justice." |
Oakland Classrooms Try Healing Instead of Punishment Fania Davis sees programs like hers as part of the way to end the school-to-prison pipeline. |
West Virginians Raise Alarm About New Coal Research Recent studies suggest that coal mining affects the health of everyone who lives nearby. |
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How a Chicago Mom Liberated a Foreclosure and Got a Home for Her Four Kids Displaced by foreclosure, this family took direct action—and got a place to live. |
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The Ancient Greeks' 6 Words for Love (And Why Knowing Them Can Change Your Life) Looking for an antidote to modern culture's emphasis on romantic love? Perhaps we can learn from the diverse forms of emotional attachment prized by the ancient Greeks. |
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Veggies at the Liquor Store—and 5 Other Ways to Bring Food to Your Community Out-of-the-box ideas for putting healthier food on our neighborhood plates—and make friends doing it. |
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"Cowboys and Indians" Camp Together to Build Alliance Against Keystone XL At the Ponca Trail of Tears Spiritual Camp, tribal members and their ranchers are learning to understand each other as never before. |
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8 Courageous Things Harry Potter Fans Did to Fight Real-Life Dark Forces If Harry Potter were a real person, he’d fight child labor, voter suppression, and poverty. Here are our favorite ways Harry's fans have taken his values from the page to the real world. |
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There Are Still More Libraries Than McDonald’s Locations in the United States (and 24 other facts you should probably know). |
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A Parliament of Mayors: Can We End Inequality By Giving Cities More Power? In our increasingly interdependent world, mayors may be more motivated to collaborate and possibly more capable than our national governments of effectively working across borders. Can you be a revolutionary and a mayor? Chokwe Lumumba—who spent eight months as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, before he died—did his best to be both. To Truly Address Inequality, Let's Build a People-Centered Economy The high-tech hubs and natural gas drilling the president called for in his state of the union speech aren't the answer to our economic woes. Instead, we need to follow the leadership already coming from communities, workers, and small-business owners. The people of New York’s poorest borough fought to ensure that redevelopment of its castle-like landmark will benefit those who live there. Will it be a gamechanger? |
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Money and Life: The Bright Side of the Money Crisis Is this “the most exciting time to be alive in human history”? The economists and scientists interviewed in this film think so, and the reasons are all about the chance to create a more fair and sustainable global economy. |
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James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade Sedat Pakay’s disarming photos of James Baldwin during his time in Turkey show a side of the great writer most of us have never seen. |
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... and other inspiration while putting together the Spring 2013 issue of YES! |
