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After Protests, BLM Grassroots Work Continues
The street protests that flooded American cities have largely ended, and a new administration is settling in in Washington, but the Black Lives Matter movement that regained national attention last summer in response to a series of police killings has not gone away.
Sudan: While Peace Deal is Signed, Feminists Fight for Representation
KHARTOUM, SUDAN - In Sudan, women are well-represented in the workforce. They are not lacking in any public spaces. And over the past few months, they have made up half, if not more, of the protest crowds making demands of their new transitional government.
Millennial Farmer Runs for Office, Runs After Her Flock
UNDERWOOD, MINNESOTA - On her 25th birthday, Brittney Johnson slept in until the luxurious hour of 7 a.m. "I'm thrilled I'm officially a quarter of a century old today. Glad to have made it!" she laughed later, sipping lemon iced tea on the porch of her farmhouse, surrounded by irises.
2018 ELECTION: Kansas Millennials Rising
American students are stepping up and speaking out against the limits of a two-party system, student loans, marijuana laws, immigration and gun control. In Kansas, six high-school students are taking it a step further: They are running for governor. And it’s no joke.
Who You Gonna Call? HateBusters!
LIBERTY, MISSOURI - Dr. Ed Chasteen of Liberty, Missouri, gets to his “office” – the first table in a local diner – at 6:30 a.m. every weekday. “My wife doesn’t like me meeting people in the house,” he said, sitting at a high table at Ginger Sue’s, surrounded by stacks of pancakes and paper.
US Army Corps of Engineers Denies Easement for Dakota Pipeline
CANNON BALL, NORTH DAKOTA - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has denied an easement for the highly controversial $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, the subject of months of protest by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, which contends the project would affect its drinking water supply and destroy its sacred sites.