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Growing up an army brat: The rules.
Our extended family in front of our quarters in Landstuhl, Germany, 1960. My father is wearing his hat. I'm on the left, dressed up in saddle shoes. ...
Hurricane Katrina, ten years later: When the investor class goes marching in
A view of flooded New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, September 2005. It's been ten years since, and yet it left lessons that remain to ...
Whose History Will Be Commemorated? New Orleans, Katrina, and the Continuing Struggle for A People’s Reconstruction
The streets of New Orleans are pictured Aug. 30, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the city's levee failures. Ten years later, much comm ...
Defying Borders: Migration in the age of security
Global politics both shape and are shaped by borders and the differences between those who have access to crossing them, and those who do not. BY ...
Did John H. Howe design any Frank Lloyd Wright houses?
John H. Howe created a Usonian design for the Bryant and Marjorie Denniston house in Newton, Iowa (1958), with a combination of grand and intimate spa ...
Shared humanity, shared responsibility: The Tribal Law and Order Act at 5
BY SARAH DEER Professor of law at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN On July 29, 2010, Native people (myself included) filled the East R ...
Examining America's rhetoric of postracial progress.
Recent events in America including the #BlackLivesMatter movement are forcing white Americans to look at race in a way that's uncomfortable— but als ...
On 'big data' and the ways we evaluate women's lives on a global scale
No Ceilings uses data sets to tell stories about gender inequality worldwide. What are the stories behind the data? Image: Screenshot, noceilings.org. ...
Grace Lee Boggs on biracialism, social movements, and hope for America
Grace Lee Boggs, pictured here in 2012, was born on June 27, 1915, in Providence, Rhode Island. She currently lives in Detroit. On June 27, 201 ...
In 1971, a wedding heard 'round the world. #LoveWins
It is so ordered. Today's momentous Unites States Supreme Court decision to strike all bans on same-sex marriage means a lot of things to a lot of ...