by Ariel Gans and Katherine Huggins | May 24, 2022 | Education, Featured, Urban Indian Healthcare
MINNEAPOLIS — Bison pastrami is not typical school lunch fare, but it’s a crowd favorite at a preschool in Minneapolis. Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts — the seemingly always on-the-go coordinator of Indigenous foods at the Wicoie Nandagikendan Early Childhood Urban Immersion...
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...
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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...
by Ariel Gans | Feb 16, 2022 | Education, Featured
More than 30 years after Congress passed a law requiring museums to return all things removed from Native American graves to descendants of those buried, the New York State Museum has returned only 29 percent of its collection of Native American ancestors and funerary...
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...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 3, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — In the two-and-a-half decades since he earned his master’s degree in counseling from the University at Albany, Matthew Flowers Jr. has been chipping away at his student loan debt. The Troy resident had to delay buying a house until last year...
