Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 5:00am
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —December 4, 2023 — Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation announced the launch of the Inside Literary Prize, the first-ever US-based literary prize awarded exclusively by currently incarcerated people. The prize will be awarded in June 2024 to one exceptional book by a jury of 300 incarcerated individuals from a dozen prisons across the nation.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 3:00am
According to the American Psychiatric Association (APA), 2/3 of adults report mood and behavior changes when the days get shorter, like fatigue or feelings of depression. 5% of adults, however, struggle with seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 2:00am
Planned Parenthood no longer provides abortions in Texas, Louisiana and the other 10 states that have essentially banned abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs v. Jackson decision in June 2022.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/29/2023 - 4:00am
Drug overdose deaths in the United States continue to rise.
Overdoses claimed more than 112,000 American lives from May 2022 to May 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a 37% increase compared with the 12-month period ending in May 2020.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/29/2023 - 3:00am
LINCOLN — Members of a watchdog group are labeling a letter penned by Gov. Jim Pillen to the Nebraska Environmental Trust Board as “unusual” and as “political interference.”
Pillen gave final approval in August to an update of the rules and regulations that govern the Trust, which doles out about $20 million a year in grants to environmental, conservation and research groups.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/22/2023 - 5:00am
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died, according to the Carter Center, leaving a rich legacy of championing mental health and women’s rights.
She will be buried at the ranch house in Plains she and former President Jimmy Carter built in 1961. She died Sunday just days after the family announced she had entered hospice at the home.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/22/2023 - 4:00am
In 2016, California Democratic state Assembly member Sharon Quirk-Silva sat with then-California Gov. Jerry Brown at an event where he signed baseball-type cards featuring the image of his dog, Colusa.
Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 11/15/2023 - 5:00am
Michaela Kelly knew it’d be hard to get her kids back. The 34-year-old tried to chip away at the obstacles — addiction, abusive relationships, mental illness — that led the State of Nebraska to place her three children in foster care.