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Small Town’s Trash Policy Has Left Black Moms Criminally Charged Over Unpaid Garbage Fees
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News. CHICKASAW, Ala.—Shaquala Jackson’s three-year-old daughter screamed. A rat was scurrying across the bathroom floor. “I grabbed the kids and ran out of the house,” she said. Jackson said that was the day she knew she and her three young children could no longer live in Chickasaw, a […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Partner Content, Politics & Policy
She Was Accused of Murder After Losing Her Pregnancy. This South Carolina Woman Now Tells Her Story.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Amari Marsh had just finished her junior year at South Carolina State University in May 2023 when she received a text message from a law enforcement officer. “Sorry it has taken this long for paperwork to come back,” the officer wrote. “But I finally have the final report, and wanted to see […]
Posted inEducation, K-12, Partner Content
All-Charter No More: New Orleans Opens Its First Traditional School in Nearly Two Decades
This story about New Orleans schools was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. In August, more than 300 students started the school year in the first traditional school run directly by the New Orleans school district since 2019. […]
Posted inNews, Partner Content, Politics & Policy
Haitian Immigrants in Ohio and Other Fact-Checks from Harris-Trump Debate
Social media users recently flooded platforms with unfounded rumors about Haitian immigrants in a small Ohio town. The immigrants are feasting on neighborhood pets, as well as ducks and geese at local parks, the social media posts said. But a city spokesperson told PolitiFact there are no credible reports this is happening. A Sept. 6 Facebook […]
Posted inClimate Change, Environmental Justice, Partner Content
Can ‘Biden’s Billions’ Deliver True Environmental Justice?
This story was produced for In These Times’ August/September magazine edition. It is published digitally in partnership. Two days after a series of tornadoes ripped through Chicago’s South Side, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electricity, Naomi Davis and Suzanne Waddell met in the front yard of Emmett Till’s childhood home to assess the […]
Posted inMaternal Health, Partner Content, Rural Issues
Maternity Care in Rural Areas Is in Crisis. Can More Doulas Help?
This article was published by KFF Health News. When Bristeria Clark went into labor with her son in 2015, her contractions were steady at first. Then, they stalled. Her cervix stopped dilating. After a few hours, doctors at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Georgia, prepped Clark for an emergency cesarean section. It wasn’t the […]
Posted inClimate Change, Environmental Justice, Extreme Weather, Partner Content
As Baltimore’s Sewer System Buckles Under Extreme Weather, City Refuses to Help Residents With Cleanup Efforts
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. A sewage cleanup program meant to assist Baltimore residents with backups in their homes has been in limbo for more than a year because of […]
