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This Somali farmer is working to introduce subsistence farming to the Somali community in Minnesota.
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For decades, natural hair, as well as hairstyles associated with “blackness” like cornrows, has been criticized. Last month, two black girls in Malden, Mass., were disciplined under a school policy barring students from wearing hair extensions. Black parents and children talk about the discrimination they have faced for wearing their hair natural, without extensions, wigs or straightening chemical
Three families, three sons, three deaths. When Oscar Grant was killed by Bart officer Johannes Mehserle, his death received much attention from the public and the press, eventually starting the I am Oscar Grant movement. However, the deaths of his two best friends from gun violence went by unnoticed. In the "Black Lives Matter" era where police brutality receives most of the national attention, an
Outrigger canoeing, an enduring symbol of Hawaii's cooperative culture as well as a highly competitive sport, has flourishes in the Bay Area. In Northern California, 29-year-old Kilohana Outrigger Canoe Club, which practices in Redwood City, as one of the best places to be introduced to outrigger canoe paddling from Hawaii. Mahlia Posey for The San Francisco Chronicle at vimeo.com/156993010
After his cousin was murdered, Michael Tubbs realized he wanted to help combat the violence in his hometown and he decided to run for mayor to make change in his community. He is Stockton, California's youngest mayor at age 26.
When Stephen Shaw was younger, he often solely identified as white, he said, though he is multiracial. "I distanced myself from the Maori side because I think you pick up pretty early on in America that it's a lot easier to be white," Shaw told NBC News. Research shows that Shaw is not alone in this thought process. A 2015 survey by Pew found that, while 6.9 percent of adults in the U.S. "could
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