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Mar 09, 2016Portraits of Resilience: Puerto Rican millennials face economic meltdown with a spirit of pa’lante
Felix Rodriguez DeJesus, 21, is studying Architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University in Puerto Rico and is the...
Mar 01, 2016Boston youth rally against unemployment, incarceration
BOSTON — Amid the crowd of hundreds of teenagers armed with megaphones and homemade signs, a line of...
Feb 23, 2016Analysis: Egypt after Mubarak
Five years after the fall of a dictator, Egypt faces echoes of the past CAIRO — The Egyptian bazaar known...
Feb 12, 2016Meet Zakia and Ali, Afghanistan’s Romeo and Juliet
They are human beings, and as poor and unlucky and ill-educated as they might be, they have just...
Feb 12, 2016Syrian Refugees of Jordan’s and Lebanon’s Camps
Jordan Ahamd Caher, 15, a Syrian refugee from Golan Heights, sits on a bed in his family’s caravan...
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