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‘We’ve always been here’: Minneapolis Two-Spirit Artists Boost Cultural Awareness

‘We’ve always been here’: Minneapolis Two-Spirit Artists Boost Cultural Awareness

by Quinn Clark | Apr 20, 2022 | Urban Indian Healthcare

MINNEAPOLIS — Thadd Hall, a two-spirit citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, still remembers a book that their father kept in the house when they were growing up – “Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians” by Washington...
Abolitionist Teaching Network supports education activists

Abolitionist Teaching Network supports education activists

by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Education

Angela Harris is a first-grade teacher at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, a public Black immersion school in Milwaukee, and one of the first six activists in residence for the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN). Harris said her activism, which has...
Environmentalist and Grammy winner Carole King testifies in House committee on forest management

Environmentalist and Grammy winner Carole King testifies in House committee on forest management

by Quinn Clark | Mar 18, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Environmental activist and singer-songwriter Carole King criticized the U.S. Forest Service’s use of logging as a way to combat wildfires at a House hearing Wednesday, saying that logging operations contribute to carbon emissions. “I...
We the People: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was an oratory study, but it also relays important messages for the next generation

We the People: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was an oratory study, but it also relays important messages for the next generation

by Quinn Clark | Feb 17, 2022 | Education

Each week, The Spokesman-Review examines one question from the Naturalization Test immigrants must pass to become United States citizens. Today’s question: Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. When Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his...
How a Queer Christian student helped defeat a proposed book ban

How a Queer Christian student helped defeat a proposed book ban

by Quinn Clark | Feb 11, 2022 | Education, Featured

Three months ago, Josiah Kemp, a transgender teenager living in Hunterdon County, N.J., made the decision to leave his home church. Kemp didn’t leave Christianity, he said, but he needed to stop attending services at a church that was openly opposed to LGBTQ...
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