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  • Adaptive Technology Programs Turn to Robotics and IoT to Help People Who Have Disabilities

    July 06, 2018 |

    Government Technology |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Governments and schools are investing in technology to better serve people of different abilities. Innovations include text-to-911 for deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens, robotic telepresence for remote students, and the Vitals app, which allows families and caregivers to alert police officers of ways to help developmentally disabled family members.

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  • In New York, volunteers engage in a quiet form of advocacy for immigrants facing deportation

    July 04, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Walking with immigrants to their court hearings and ICE check-ins can help them feel supported and protect their safety and rights. The New Sanctuary Coalition has run an accompaniment program since 2007. Volunteers do not interfere with proceedings, but by their presence, they demonstrate community support of immigrants and play witness to interactions between immigrants and government officials.

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  • How Denver's Disability Activists Transformed the City

    July 01, 2018 |

    5280 - The Denver Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Disability activists have used nonviolent direct action for decades, including lying in the street to protest inaccessible public transit and crawling up the steps of the U.S. Capital to support the Americans with Disabilities Act. “We have never gone out a door that we do not have a solution for,” says ADAPT member Dawn Russell. “That’s ADAPT 101.”

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  • None of the Above

    June 30, 2018 |

    Kerning Cultures |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Because Middle Easterners are classified as “white” in the U.S. Census, their specific needs and identities are not disaggregated. This lack of visibility may prevent discriminatory treatment, but it also impacts the allocation of government resources and leaves many feeling unrepresented in their country. The Arab American Institute is again pushing for change ahead of the 2020 survey, an effort that has now spanned decades.

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  • How Sweden coped with 35,000 unaccompanied refugee children

    June 29, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sweden

    Every migrant child applying for asylum in Sweden gets a public lawyer and an assigned guardian. Although a rapid rise in asylum seekers in 2015-16 strained the country’s migration system, Sweden has not resorted to putting children in detention centers and remains a leader by international standards in migrant children’s services.

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  • 'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis

    June 25, 2018 |

    Wired |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Using their research skills to obtain public information, a group of librarians created an interactive map showing the location of ICE offices and juvenile detention facilities. They also created a toolkit to assist digital humanities workers to know how to respond in a crisis.

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  • The Cops Standing With, and For, the Gay Communities They Serve

    June 22, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Gay Officers League in the New York Police Department started in the early 1980s when memories of the Stonewall Riots were still fresh to support gay officers in the NYPD while also improving relations between the LGBTQ community and the police. NYPD is now one of the most diverse forces in the nation and there are more than 2,000 GOAL members in Philadelphia, Chicago and New England. They have become role models in the gay community while also changing attitudes within law enforcement.

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  • Broadcasts in a Native Language, Speaking to Every Corner of Peru

    June 21, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Peru, Cusco

    Luis Soto, is the first indigenous Peruvian to voiceover a soccer game in his native language, Quechua, since 1982. In Peru, indigenous people “make up about a fifth of the nation’s population” and continue to grapple with racism and classism in Peru. Something, Soto believes he is counteracting. “ I do it so people can feel represented.”

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  • Caring for California's aging prisoners

    June 20, 2018 |

    Reuters |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, California

    In California, about 18,400 inmates are over the age of 55. In order to properly treat them the state is building a dementia unit. Other states like New York might follow suit, in order to properly care for their aging inmate population.

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  • Why Have There Been No Great Black Art Dealers?

    June 20, 2018 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As artists of color are routinely marginalized or erased from art history, black gallerists have served a critical role to support and champion black artists. Gallerists provide an entry point for artists as well as promoting work to collectors and institutions and protecting the context in which the work is displayed.

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