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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Kamala Harris Fact-Check: How Accurate Was Her 2024 DNC Speech?
CHICAGO — Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris said she’ll be a president who is “practical and has common sense and always fights for the American people.” In a 37-minute acceptance speech — roughly one-third the length of former President Donald Trump’s at the Republican National Convention in July — Harris retold the story of […]
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2024 DNC Night 3 Fact-Check: What Speakers Got Right, Wrong
CHICAGO — PolitiFact fact-checked the third night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, including Wednesday’s speeches by the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, and former President Bill Clinton. PolitiFact fact-checks politicians across the political spectrum. We also fact-checked the Republican National Convention in July. Read more about our process. Continue to check back as this story […]
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If Mental Health Responders – Not Police – Had Come to Marquis Rivera’s Home, Would He Be Alive Today?
This story, originally published by MindSite News, is the latest installment of Fateful Encounters, an ongoing investigative collaboration between MindSite News, the Medill Investigative Lab-Chicago at Northwestern University and other media outlets exploring police response to mental health crises. This work is generously supported by the Sozosei Foundation. Marquis Rivera was going to kill himself. […]
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Fact-Checking DNC Night 2: What Democratic Speakers Got Right, Wrong
CHICAGO — Two decades after exploding onto the political scene at a different Democratic convention, former President Barack Obama, along with former first lady Michelle Obama, energized convention attendees here. The Obamas bestowed their support on nominee Kamala Harris, who aims to follow Obama as the nation’s second Black president. Barack Obama began his address by […]
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DNC Fact-Check Day 1: Democrats’ Warnings About Trump’s ‘Project 2025 Agenda’
Project 2025 has a starring role in this week’s Democratic National Convention. And it was front and center on Night 1. “This is Project 2025,” Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, D-Royal Oak, said as she laid a hardbound copy of the 900-page document on the lectern. “Over the next four nights, you are going to […]
Posted inHealth, Health Equity, Partner Content, Rural Issues
Rural Communities of Color Across the U.S. Find New Ways to Get the Health Care They Need
Haywood Park Community Hospital was the closest hospital for many in Brownsville, Tennessee, a rural city in the western part of the state. Some residents believe it kept their loved ones alive. But others in this majority-Black city said they drove to a hospital miles away or skipped care completely. The facility eventually closed in […]
