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Why migrant children cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone

Why migrant children cross the U.S.-Mexico border alone

A record breaking number of migrant children and teenagers have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border this year. As in years before, many children make the perilous journey without their parents only to face an uncertain future. Why they do it is complicated.
by Kerri Miller and Ariana Rosas

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100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains

100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains

The Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped, again and again, by racism and racist violence — forcing generation after generation to start from scratch while shouldering the burdens of being Black in America. All in the shadow of a Black paradise lost.
by The Associated Press

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Friendship, health, community: Twin Cities Latino cyclists on a roll

Friendship, health, community: Twin Cities Latino cyclists on a roll

Latino Social Biking is a Twin Cities group helping Latino people connect, get healthy and get past the isolation and sedentary influences of the pandemic. MPR News recently tagged along for a ride.
by Kathryn Styer Martinez

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How Tulsa Race Massacre shaped today's most successful Black CEOs

How Tulsa Race Massacre shaped today's most successful Black CEOs

Ariel Investments CEO John Rogers, TIAA CEO Thasunda Duckett, and former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault reflect on what the Tulsa events a century ago has meant to them.
by David Gura

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Canada: Bodies at Indigenous school not isolated incident

Canada: Bodies at Indigenous school not isolated incident

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school.
by The Associated Press

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Dems walk, stop Texas GOP's sweeping voting restrictions

Dems walk, stop Texas GOP's sweeping voting restrictions

A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of reaching Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk failed to pass Sunday night after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a midnight deadline.
by The Associated Press

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Events mark Tulsa Race Massacre centennial

Events mark Tulsa Race Massacre centennial

Events this weekend are memorializing the victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, considered one of the worst and deadliest acts of racial violence in American history.
by The Associated Press

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