The civil rights leader ‘almost nobody knows about’ gets a statue in the U.S. Capitol

Officials, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), participate in the dedication ceremony for the statue of Ponca Chief Standing Bear of Nebraska…

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Read more about the article Dark States – Heroin Town
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Dark States – Heroin Town

The opioid epidemic or opioid crisis is the rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs in the United States and Canada in the 2010s. Opioids are a diverse class of moderately strong painkillers,…

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Read more about the article How To Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone Again
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How To Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone Again

Recently, we wrote about a new report from the California Legislative Analyst's Office that found that poorer neighborhoods that have added more market-rate housing in the Bay Area since 2000 have been less…

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Read more about the article Why The Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People
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Why The Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People

In late 2015, Darren Walker approached the foundation’s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a professional development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI).…

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