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In a Post-Pandemic World, We Must Pay More Attention to Emotions

Two years ago, I learned a new word for what happens when someone simultaneously feels multiple emotions. “Scribble” is what happens when feelings like happiness, nervousness, anxiousness, and...

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What Is Environmental Activism? Youth of Color Creating Justice

Yancey Sanes grew up in the Bronx, and he’s now teaching the borough’s history of environmental activism to GenZ students at the very school he attended, Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School. The...

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Cultural Worker Marie Medjine Antoine Plants Seeds of a Green Economy

Cultural worker Marie Medjine Antoine is an environmental activist and intern for RISE St. James, a faith-based environmental justice organization in Louisiana. Antoine couples a degree in sociology...

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How Alabama Is Leading the Way in Solving the Math Crisis

As education leaders and policymakers across the country look for solutions to the nation’s math crisis, they should turn their attention to a state that is too often ignored: Alabama. I know,...

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What Is Environmental Activism? Bronx Youth Making Green Space

Brandon Gonzales, 16, is growing up in the South Bronx, also known as “Asthma Alley” for its historically high rates of childhood asthma. “I myself don't have asthma, but I know a lot of people who...

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Jackson’s Maisie Brown Links Social and Environmental Justice

Since her early teens, Maisie Brown has been using her digital media savvy to fight for racial equity: from joining the campaign to remove a Confederate emblem from the Mississippi state flag to...

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