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Supreme Court allows states to use unlawfully gerrymandered congressional maps in the 2022 midterm elections

by lisadtinsley June 4, 2022

Henry L. Chambers Jr. – Professor of Law, University of Richmond In the upcoming midterm elections, states may use maps that a federal court has found unlawful. You read that…

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Jackie Robinson was a radical – don’t listen to the sanitized version of history

by lisadtinsley May 8, 2022

Peter Dreier – E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College In our new book, “Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed…

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May 8, 2022 0 comment 288 views
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The ‘hot hand’ is a real basketball phenomenon – but only some players have the ability to go on these basket-making streaks

by lisadtinsley April 11, 2022

Konstantinos Pelechrinis – Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh Wayne Winston- Professor of Decision and Information Systems, Indiana University March Madness is here, and basketball fans are…

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April 11, 2022 0 comment 468 views
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EducationFeaturedNational

Students with disabilities are not getting help to address lost opportunities

by lisadtinsley March 24, 2022

John McKenna – Associate Professor of Special Education, UMass Lowell Even before the pandemic hit, 98% of U.S. school districts said they didn’t have enough special education teachers to serve all the…

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March 24, 2022 0 comment 642 views
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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing for years unless communities plan ahead – the loss hurts the entire local economy

by lisadtinsley March 18, 2022

Shannon Van Zandt – Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people…

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March 18, 2022 0 comment 1031 views
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Heading into the third year of the pandemic, the US blood supply is at a 10-year low

by lisadtinsley March 15, 2022

Anna Nagurney – Professor and Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst The blood supply in the U.S. is now at its lowest level in over a decade. Many of the nation’s…

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March 15, 2022 0 comment 500 views
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Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

by lisadtinsley February 22, 2022

Aram Goudsouzian – Bizot Family Professor of History, University of Memphis In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. introduced the keynote speaker for the 10th-anniversary convention banquet of…

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February 22, 2022 0 comment 510 views
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How poisonous mercury gets from coal-fired power plants into the fish you eat

by lisadtinsley February 20, 2022

Gabriel Filippelli – Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, IUPUI   People fishing along the banks of the White River as it winds…

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February 20, 2022 0 comment 470 views
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Inflation inequality: Poorest Americans are hit hardest by soaring prices on necessities

by lisadtinsley February 4, 2022

Jacob Orchard – Doctoral Candidate in Economics, University of California San Diego The fastest rate of inflation in 40 years is hurting families across the U.S. who are seeing ever-higher prices for…

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February 4, 2022 0 comment 225 views
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Racial and ethnic diversity is lacking among nonprofit leaders – but there are ways to change that

by lisadtinsley February 2, 2022

About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90% in 2016. Similarly, roughly 78% of nonprofit board members were white in 2019, down from 84%…

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