Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 08/02/2023 - 3:00am
My husband and I spent a late August day several years ago settling in our oldest child, Andrew, for the start of his first year at college. We went to Walmart to buy a mini fridge and rug. We hung posters above his bed. We attended the obligatory goodbye family lunch before heading to our car to return to a slightly quieter house.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Wed, 07/19/2023 - 5:00am
Charities often rely on “warm and fuzzy” images and “poverty porn” tactics to attract donations. But in recent years, some UK not-for-profits have shifted towards activism-driven campaigns.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Wed, 07/19/2023 - 2:00am
Many American Indians attended compulsory boarding schools in the 1900s or have relatives who did. My family is no different. Three generations of Running Bears – my grandparents, parents and those from my own generation – attended these residential schools over a period stretching from approximately 1907 to the mid-1970s.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 07/12/2023 - 5:00am
Hundreds of scientists protested government efforts to restrict educational access to Western science theories, including Darwin’s theory of evolution, in June 2023 in India. Similarly, scientists in Mexico participated in a research strike in May 2023 to protest a national law they claimed would threaten the conditions for basic research. And during the same month in Norway, three scientists were arrested for protesting the nation’s slow-moving climate policy.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 07/12/2023 - 4:00am
BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — Hundreds of divers and snorkelers listened to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection Saturday in the Florida Keys.
The Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival, which also spotlighted eco-conscious diving, took place at Looe Key Reef, an area of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary located about 6 miles (10 kilometers) south of Big Pine Key.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 07/12/2023 - 2:00am
Two Supreme Court rulings on elections last month brought on a wave of cheers from voting organizers and democracy experts, who believe the cases will uphold key democratic norms going into the 2024 presidential election — but they still worry about an ongoing erosion of access to the ballot box.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 07/12/2023 - 1:00am
Bodies Of Dozens Of Children who died at a Native American boarding school have been lost for decades, a mystery that archeologists aim to unravel as they begin digging in a central Nebraska field that a century ago was part of the sprawling campus.
Published by jason@omahadail... on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 2:00am
Although they never fail to take us aback, French riots have followed the same distinct pattern ever since protests broke out in the Eastern suburbs of Lyon in 1981, an episode known as the “summer of Minguettes”: a young person is killed or seriously injured by the police, triggering an outpouring of violence in the affected neighborhood and nearby. Sometimes, as in the case of the 2005 riots and of today’s, it is every rough neighborhood that flares up.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 5:00am
Omaha, Neb. – Charitable nonprofits in Nebraska are reporting significant difficulties retaining staff and filling vacancies, according to a new survey conducted by the National Council of Nonprofits.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 07/05/2023 - 4:00am
The 2018 midterms were known as “The Year of the Black Woman,” as a record-setting five of them were elected to Congress.
It was also the year I met Glynda Carr. Seven years earlier, she and Kimberly Peeler-Allen started Higher Heights for America, proclaiming their mission as “a national movement to grow Black women’s political power from the voting booth to elected office.”