On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in Virginia. The event showcased many different facets of STEM fields and careers and offered hands-on experiences by nearly 100...
The San Francisco Bay Area has a new and interactive way to learn more about the innovative work of NASA’s Ames Research Center. A newly redesigned NASA Ames Visitor Center at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California, reopened to the public June 22 at the NASA Fest at Chabot celebration. The two-day festival included hands-on activities, workshops...
On Saturday, June 1, 2024, thousands of community members attended the Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) Community Day hosted by Christopher Newport University in partnership with Newport News Public Schools in Virginia. The event showcased many different facets of STEM fields and careers and offered hands-on experiences by nearly 100...
MICHGIAN Grand Rapids-based grantee First Steps Kent is working to pass a renewal this August of Michigan’s first-ever millage to support early childhood development in the county for the next six years. An estimated 14,000 children benefitted from the Ready By Five millage passed in 2023. It funds programs that offer prenatal support, developmental screenings, early...
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OnlyMercy Illustration by Blacksneakers. by CHANELL BURNETTE June 27, 2023 ABOLITION WEEK As a Black woman who has navigated my way through the rough and rugged terrain of incarceration, the abolition of parole in 1995 was yet another stumbling block in the road to deter me. If only mercy was shown to many of us within this wretched criminal justice system, perhaps...
In January 1990, the sun had yet to shine. Grandma Iftikar, then a 54-year-old woman, was standing in front of four fully-armed soldiers. Unafraid of getting shot in the head, she slapped one of them. They didn’t even bat an eye and kept walking. Helplessly, she stood there watching as they dragged a 20-year-old young man along with them. They took her beloved...
(Update on World Water Day, March 22, 2024) Our Mni Wiconi (Water is Life) water line connection program on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation will soon ramp up once the frozen ground on the Great Plains of South Dakota thaws. This will allow our Oglala Lakota contractor to resume digging six-foot-deep trenches and running water lines from the main service water line...
U.S. Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Michael McCaul (R-TX) have introduced the bipartisan Homicide Victims’ Families Rights Act to permit close relatives of homicide victims to request a formal review of the facts and evidence involved in unsolved homicides to determine if new approaches could be taken for investigations under federal jurisdiction. “Losing a relative...