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Native Americans in Chicago have high opioid death rates. So why won’t they get tribal settlement money?

Native Americans in Chicago have high opioid death rates. So why won’t they get tribal settlement money?

by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Health, Urban Indian Healthcare

CHICAGO – Sarina DiMaso, a citizen of the Chiricahua Apache and Taino Nations, stumbled into her Chicago home seven years ago after a drug and alcohol binge to find her 24-year-old daughter, Nicole, dead by suicide in DiMaso’s bedroom. Riddled with guilt and trapped...
Preventing future ‘wrongs’: new USDA equity panel looks to expand agriculture resources to minority communities

Preventing future ‘wrongs’: new USDA equity panel looks to expand agriculture resources to minority communities

by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Mar 1, 2022 | Featured, Social Justice

WASHINGTON – Members of a new equity commission advising the U.S. Department of Agriculture said they want to make sure the USDA does a better job providing resources to Black farmers and other minority communities following decades of racial discrimination....
A new USDA commission asks how to end discrimination in farming, but Black farmers are skeptical

A new USDA commission asks how to end discrimination in farming, but Black farmers are skeptical

by Andrew Marquardt and Hannah Schoenbaum | Feb 10, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Agriculture Thursday will unveil the members of a new commission to combat decades of discrimination by the department that Black farmers say has contributed to a sharp decrease in their ranks across the country. But some Black...

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