This dispatch is part of a collaboration with The Associated Press as part of our series On the...
Feb 22, 2021
Lone Star chaos: Postcard from a Texas journalist waiting to flip the lights back on
FORT WORTH – Like millions of Texans on Sunday night — which happened to be my birthday —...
Feb 19, 2021
How students worked behind the scenes to make New Hampshire’s campus sexual assault law a reality
CONCORD, N.H. – On a Thursday morning in late February 2020, first-year Dartmouth College student David Millman traveled...
Feb 18, 2021
Longtime ESL teacher serves as bridge to northern Kentucky immigrants, refugees
FLORENCE, Ky. — Students stream in and out of Room 202 of this northern Kentucky school all day...
Feb 10, 2021
‘Make no mistake’: Drag queens are leading a racial reckoning in Chicago’s famous LGBTQ neighborhood
CHICAGO — A sea of protestors, about several thousand strong, flooded the streets of Chicago’s LGBTQ neighborhood one...
Feb 03, 2021
Lingering trauma: Families separated at border suffer long-term mental health challenges
BALTIMORE — A father cried uncontrollably during group therapy, recounting how tired he was from the journey of migrating...
Jan 28, 2021
VERMONT
Racism in Bernie Sanders’ state? Yes, say powerful Black women forced to leave southern Vermont
RUTLAND, Vt. — Paint, strewn across a Black Lives Matter lawn sign her daughter made, marked a turning...
Jan 21, 2021
From ‘high cotton’ to dead end: What one South Carolina project teaches us about public housing
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For Latifa Anderson, who grew up in the Allen Benedict Court public housing project in...
Jan 14, 2021
ON THE GROUND IN WICHITA, KS
Can the pandemic lead to worker solidarity in Kansas? Lessons from 100 years ago.
WICHITA, Kansas — On Aug. 25, 1922, in a headline for an article in the weekly labor newspaper, the...
Jan 08, 2021
ON THE GROUND IN NEWPORT, RI
In Newport, leaders tackle the inequity of a city famous for its affluence
NEWPORT, R.I. — To many outsiders, Newport is a pillar of American opulence. Nicknamed “America’s First Resort,” the...
Jan 05, 2021
