When Megan Botel was in Mr. Tyrell-Smith’s fifth grade class, she wrote a poem on a brown paper...
Sep 30, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN BALTIMORE, MD
Born with a ‘target on his back’: A Black mother confronts a grim reality
BALTIMORE – Catina Smith thought she knew exactly what to expect from her third pregnancy. The Baltimore native...
Sep 29, 2020
New Tennessee law surfaces the South’s racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement
This story was originally published by Scalawag, a journalism and storytelling organization that illuminates dissent, unsettles dominant narratives, pursues justice...
Sep 29, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN SACRAMENTO, CA
In California, new effort launched to teach dark history of anti-Chinese bigotry
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When he went to the annual Sacramento Archives Crawl in October, Diego Leibman didn’t expect...
Sep 24, 2020
Episode 8: Finding Robert Johnson in the Mississippi Delta
The origins of Blues music is a complex weave of traditions, and the genre echoes suffering and endurance...
Sep 23, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN MODESTO, CA
Why this 14-year-old California girl is the changing face of the Golden State
MODESTO, Calif. – Alani Magaña looks, acts and talks like a typical Stanislaus County 14-year-old because she is...
Sep 23, 2020
ON THE GROUND WITH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
‘Washed away by the majority’: Inside Texas attorneys’ long fight for Latino voting rights
This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of voting rights...
Sep 21, 2020
How young poll workers may save Americans from Election Day chaos
Evan Malbrough is one of the younger — and more valuable — poll workers in his Atlanta, Ga., precinct. The 22-year-old...
Sep 17, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN WICHITA, KS
Vulnerable Kansas bird populations are a canary in a coal mine for climate change
WICHITA — It has been five months since Virginia Soyez died on a Monday in March, but every...
Sep 17, 2020
10 years since the Arab Spring, ‘an explosive situation’ builds in Tunisia
In 2010, a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire and later died. His suicide kicked...
Sep 16, 2020
ON THE GROUND IN CAMARILLO, CA
Turning the page: Ventura County students call for reading list diversity
CAMARILLO, Calif. – Civil unrest in June following George Floyd’s death catalyzed young adults in Ventura County high...
Sep 15, 2020