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9 Artists Explore the Pride and Joys of Being Asian American and Pacific Islander. “Leaning more into my heritage keeps me rooted and reminds me that we are all deeply connected, and how we treat each other, and how we show up deeply matters.”. Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene |

May 28, 2021.

THE TIME TO SECURE VOTING RIGHTS IS NOW OR NEVER That outreach includes registration drives, get-out-the-vote efforts, and now in 2021, pushing back against a slew of bills designed to strip voting rights from a large, mostly non-White part of the electorate. The obvious solution to this push by well-funded conservative groups is federal legislation. The For the People Act

would help more

YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Jason Eyre. When schools across the U.S. closed in March 2020, the Murray City School District in Utah was more prepared than most. The district had equipped all of its 6,100 students with laptops in 2018 and was in the process of developing an online learning system intended for snow days and other unforeseen closures. IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 15. Start a daily meditation or mindfulness habit. It’s really just a matter of sitting still and watching your breath go in and out, training your mind to let go of every thought as soon as it arrives, and enjoying the stillness that lies within once the mental chatter has slowed, slowed, and finally halted. THE LANGUAGE OF ANTI-RACISM A set of norms and expectations predicated on white habits, or the preferences, tastes, emotions, and perceptions of white Americans. 3. The belief that white people are inherently superior to people of color and should dominate over people of color. synonyms: racialized social system, whiteness. antonym: anti-racism. BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good. Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves. The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the

pandemic.

BLACK FARMERS EMBRACE PRACTICES OF CLIMATE RESILIENCY A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers. Their practices drove around 50% of the original organic matter from the soil into the sky as carbon dioxide. Agriculture continues to have a profound impact on the climate 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS John James Audubon, namesake of the famous bird conservation group, was a slaveholder. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a founder of the Save the Redwoods League, supported eugenics. 6. A lack of government and organizational diversity perpetuates the problem.

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9 Artists Explore the Pride and Joys of Being Asian American and Pacific Islander. “Leaning more into my heritage keeps me rooted and reminds me that we are all deeply connected, and how we treat each other, and how we show up deeply matters.”. Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene |

May 28, 2021.

THE TIME TO SECURE VOTING RIGHTS IS NOW OR NEVER That outreach includes registration drives, get-out-the-vote efforts, and now in 2021, pushing back against a slew of bills designed to strip voting rights from a large, mostly non-White part of the electorate. The obvious solution to this push by well-funded conservative groups is federal legislation. The For the People Act

would help more

YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Jason Eyre. When schools across the U.S. closed in March 2020, the Murray City School District in Utah was more prepared than most. The district had equipped all of its 6,100 students with laptops in 2018 and was in the process of developing an online learning system intended for snow days and other unforeseen closures. IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 15. Start a daily meditation or mindfulness habit. It’s really just a matter of sitting still and watching your breath go in and out, training your mind to let go of every thought as soon as it arrives, and enjoying the stillness that lies within once the mental chatter has slowed, slowed, and finally halted. THE LANGUAGE OF ANTI-RACISM A set of norms and expectations predicated on white habits, or the preferences, tastes, emotions, and perceptions of white Americans. 3. The belief that white people are inherently superior to people of color and should dominate over people of color. synonyms: racialized social system, whiteness. antonym: anti-racism. BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good. Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves. The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the

pandemic.

10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS John James Audubon, namesake of the famous bird conservation group, was a slaveholder. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a founder of the Save the Redwoods League, supported eugenics. 6. A lack of government and organizational diversity perpetuates the problem. BLACK FARMERS EMBRACE PRACTICES OF CLIMATE RESILIENCY A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers. Their practices drove around 50% of the original organic matter from the soil into the sky as carbon dioxide. Agriculture continues to have a profound impact on the climate JOIN THE YES! TEAM FOR THE PLASTIC FREE ECOCHALLENGE 11 hours ago · Join YES! for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge, a month-long effort to help all of us to shift away from our single-use plastic dependency and to care for our ecosystems. MAKING HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBLE—BY AIR 12 hours ago · Eileen Ambrosini moved to the small town of Atwater, California, in 1979. Over the next three decades she met her husband, raised her daughter, and worked as a high school French teacher, all in the heart of the state’s agricultural corridor. But when Ambrosini was diagnosed with breast cancer in CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Jason Eyre. When schools across the U.S. closed in March 2020, the Murray City School District in Utah was more prepared than most. The district had equipped all of its 6,100 students with laptops in 2018 and was in the process of developing an online learning system intended for snow days and other unforeseen closures. 7 THINGS I LEARNED BY COLLABORATING WITH INDIGENOUS WISDOM Directors of the film One Word Sawalmem, Michael “Pom” Preston and Natasha Deganello Giraudie. 1. WISDOM. Indigenous wisdom is human wisdom, which has been miraculously preserved by Native people. For thousands of years, as people indigenous to the Earth, we all prioritized a relationship with nature, grounded in kinship, centered around reciprocity, and infused with reverence. However THE DANGERS OF WHITE MALE SUPREMACY 1 day ago · I’m a natural to review Ijeoma Oluo’s new book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Seal Press, 2020). I am White, male, American, and when I taught at the University of Texas at Austin, I routinely joked that “the secret to my success is that I’m mediocre, and I know it 100 YEARS AFTER THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE, WHAT HAVE WE Langston, founded in 1890, is where the historically Black college, Langston University, founded seven years later, is located. The town and college are named after John Mercer Langston, the prominent Black abolitionist and attorney who served in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, and went on to be an ambassador, a civil rights activist, and the founder of Howard THE TRANS HISTORY YOU WEREN’T TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS Other native cultures also display a deep respect for gender diversity. The Navajo tribe from the southwest United States have a gender category called Nadleeh, which can refer to transgender people who have transitioned in one direction along the gender binary (having been assigned male at birth, and now identifying as female, or assigned female at birth and now identifying as male), gender DOCTORS PUSH TO BRING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE BACK TO 1 day ago · In 2019, C.C., then an 18-year-old American citizen living on Guam, became pregnant, but knew she and her partner weren’t ready to be parents. “I come from a very toxic family and wanted to make sure I gave my child a better life than I had,” she said. C.C. also struggles with psychiatric 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS John James Audubon, namesake of the famous bird conservation group, was a slaveholder. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a founder of the Save the Redwoods League, supported eugenics. 6. A lack of government and organizational diversity perpetuates the problem. DO YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR CLIMATE CONCERN? Hello! Penumbra is a neat word, isn’t it? It sounds like Harry Potter spellery, a tiny incantation that Hermione would utter to make writing implements appear. Penumbra! Beyond its original, shadowy definition, the academics Andrew Gelman and Yotam Margalit propose a fresh meaning for this

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9 Artists Explore the Pride and Joys of Being Asian American and Pacific Islander. “Leaning more into my heritage keeps me rooted and reminds me that we are all deeply connected, and how we treat each other, and how we show up deeply matters.”. Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene |

May 28, 2021.

THE TIME TO SECURE VOTING RIGHTS IS NOW OR NEVER That outreach includes registration drives, get-out-the-vote efforts, and now in 2021, pushing back against a slew of bills designed to strip voting rights from a large, mostly non-White part of the electorate. The obvious solution to this push by well-funded conservative groups is federal legislation. The For the People Act

would help more

YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Jason Eyre. When schools across the U.S. closed in March 2020, the Murray City School District in Utah was more prepared than most. The district had equipped all of its 6,100 students with laptops in 2018 and was in the process of developing an online learning system intended for snow days and other unforeseen closures. IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 15. Start a daily meditation or mindfulness habit. It’s really just a matter of sitting still and watching your breath go in and out, training your mind to let go of every thought as soon as it arrives, and enjoying the stillness that lies within once the mental chatter has slowed, slowed, and finally halted. THE LANGUAGE OF ANTI-RACISM A set of norms and expectations predicated on white habits, or the preferences, tastes, emotions, and perceptions of white Americans. 3. The belief that white people are inherently superior to people of color and should dominate over people of color. synonyms: racialized social system, whiteness. antonym: anti-racism. BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good. Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves. The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the

pandemic.

BLACK FARMERS EMBRACE PRACTICES OF CLIMATE RESILIENCY A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers. Their practices drove around 50% of the original organic matter from the soil into the sky as carbon dioxide. Agriculture continues to have a profound impact on the climate 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS John James Audubon, namesake of the famous bird conservation group, was a slaveholder. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a founder of the Save the Redwoods League, supported eugenics. 6. A lack of government and organizational diversity perpetuates the problem.

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9 Artists Explore the Pride and Joys of Being Asian American and Pacific Islander. “Leaning more into my heritage keeps me rooted and reminds me that we are all deeply connected, and how we treat each other, and how we show up deeply matters.”. Enkhbayar Munkh-Erdene |

May 28, 2021.

THE TIME TO SECURE VOTING RIGHTS IS NOW OR NEVER That outreach includes registration drives, get-out-the-vote efforts, and now in 2021, pushing back against a slew of bills designed to strip voting rights from a large, mostly non-White part of the electorate. The obvious solution to this push by well-funded conservative groups is federal legislation. The For the People Act

would help more

YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Jason Eyre. When schools across the U.S. closed in March 2020, the Murray City School District in Utah was more prepared than most. The district had equipped all of its 6,100 students with laptops in 2018 and was in the process of developing an online learning system intended for snow days and other unforeseen closures. IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 15. Start a daily meditation or mindfulness habit. It’s really just a matter of sitting still and watching your breath go in and out, training your mind to let go of every thought as soon as it arrives, and enjoying the stillness that lies within once the mental chatter has slowed, slowed, and finally halted. THE LANGUAGE OF ANTI-RACISM A set of norms and expectations predicated on white habits, or the preferences, tastes, emotions, and perceptions of white Americans. 3. The belief that white people are inherently superior to people of color and should dominate over people of color. synonyms: racialized social system, whiteness. antonym: anti-racism. BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good. Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves. The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the

pandemic.

BLACK FARMERS EMBRACE PRACTICES OF CLIMATE RESILIENCY A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers. Their practices drove around 50% of the original organic matter from the soil into the sky as carbon dioxide. Agriculture continues to have a profound impact on the climate 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS John James Audubon, namesake of the famous bird conservation group, was a slaveholder. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a founder of the Save the Redwoods League, supported eugenics. 6. A lack of government and organizational diversity perpetuates the problem. JOIN THE YES! TEAM FOR THE PLASTIC FREE ECOCHALLENGE 5 hours ago · Join YES! for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge, a month-long effort to help all of us to shift away from our single-use plastic dependency and to care for our ecosystems. MAKING HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBLE—BY AIR 7 hours ago · Eileen Ambrosini moved to the small town of Atwater, California, in 1979. Over the next three decades she met her husband, raised her daughter, and worked as a high school French teacher, all in the heart of the state’s agricultural corridor. But when Ambrosini was diagnosed with breast cancer in CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Jason Eyre. When schools across the U.S. closed in March 2020, the Murray City School District in Utah was more prepared than most. The district had equipped all of its 6,100 students with laptops in 2018 and was in the process of developing an online learning system intended for snow days and other unforeseen closures. 7 THINGS I LEARNED BY COLLABORATING WITH INDIGENOUS WISDOM Directors of the film One Word Sawalmem, Michael “Pom” Preston and Natasha Deganello Giraudie. 1. WISDOM. Indigenous wisdom is human wisdom, which has been miraculously preserved by Native people. For thousands of years, as people indigenous to the Earth, we all prioritized a relationship with nature, grounded in kinship, centered around reciprocity, and infused with reverence. However THE DANGERS OF WHITE MALE SUPREMACY 1 day ago · I’m a natural to review Ijeoma Oluo’s new book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Seal Press, 2020). I am White, male, American, and when I taught at the University of Texas at Austin, I routinely joked that “the secret to my success is that I’m mediocre, and I know it 100 YEARS AFTER THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE, WHAT HAVE WE Langston, founded in 1890, is where the historically Black college, Langston University, founded seven years later, is located. The town and college are named after John Mercer Langston, the prominent Black abolitionist and attorney who served in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, and went on to be an ambassador, a civil rights activist, and the founder of Howard THE TRANS HISTORY YOU WEREN’T TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS Other native cultures also display a deep respect for gender diversity. The Navajo tribe from the southwest United States have a gender category called Nadleeh, which can refer to transgender people who have transitioned in one direction along the gender binary (having been assigned male at birth, and now identifying as female, or assigned female at birth and now identifying as male), gender DOCTORS PUSH TO BRING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE BACK TO 1 day ago · In 2019, C.C., then an 18-year-old American citizen living on Guam, became pregnant, but knew she and her partner weren’t ready to be parents. “I come from a very toxic family and wanted to make sure I gave my child a better life than I had,” she said. C.C. also struggles with psychiatric 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS John James Audubon, namesake of the famous bird conservation group, was a slaveholder. Henry Fairfield Osborn, a founder of the Save the Redwoods League, supported eugenics. 6. A lack of government and organizational diversity perpetuates the problem. DO YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR CLIMATE CONCERN? Hello! Penumbra is a neat word, isn’t it? It sounds like Harry Potter spellery, a tiny incantation that Hermione would utter to make writing implements appear. Penumbra! Beyond its original, shadowy definition, the academics Andrew Gelman and Yotam Margalit propose a fresh meaning for this

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As the coronavirus upends lives, another public health crisis arises. New research shows eight times more people are under serious mental

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JOIN THE YES! TEAM FOR THE PLASTIC FREE ECOCHALLENGE 26 minutes ago · Join YES! for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge, a month-long effort to help all of us to shift away from our single-use plastic dependency and to care for our ecosystems. YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Inequitable access to the internet became a glaring public health issue during the pandemic. Here’s how three communities addressed the digital divide equitably and quickly. In Cleveland, the nonprofit DigitalC has been working to provide equitable internet service since 2003, when it started IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling THE LANGUAGE OF ANTI-RACISM anti-racism. 1. The practice of dismantling a system marked by white supremacy and anti-Black racism through deliberate action . 2. A theory that explains and exposes multiple forms of racism: overt and covert, interpersonal and institutional, historical and present day, persistent and nascent BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD A little policy research showed that, in Washington, bread was one of the few homemade foods the state health department allowed to be donated to food banks without needing to be made in a licensed

commercial kitchen.

50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Mandee Martin marks the walkway of an outdoor grocery store on March 21 in Somerville, Massachusetts. To comply with the city’s food safety protocol and social distancing recommendations, patrons registered to shop in advance, stood 6 feet apart at 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS A coalition of NYC Black Lives Matter activists and environmental justice groups marching on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X at the NYC Solidarity Rally for Flint in New York City,

on Feb. 21, 2016.

BLACK FARMERS EMBRACE PRACTICES OF CLIMATE RESILIENCY But the same communities on the frontlines of climate impact are also on the frontlines of climate solutions. A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers.

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As the coronavirus upends lives, another public health crisis arises. New research shows eight times more people are under serious mental

distress now.

JOIN THE YES! TEAM FOR THE PLASTIC FREE ECOCHALLENGE 26 minutes ago · Join YES! for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge, a month-long effort to help all of us to shift away from our single-use plastic dependency and to care for our ecosystems. YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Inequitable access to the internet became a glaring public health issue during the pandemic. Here’s how three communities addressed the digital divide equitably and quickly. In Cleveland, the nonprofit DigitalC has been working to provide equitable internet service since 2003, when it started IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Mandee Martin marks the walkway of an outdoor grocery store on March 21 in Somerville, Massachusetts. To comply with the city’s food safety protocol and social distancing recommendations, patrons registered to shop in advance, stood 6 feet apart at THE LANGUAGE OF ANTI-RACISM anti-racism. 1. The practice of dismantling a system marked by white supremacy and anti-Black racism through deliberate action . 2. A theory that explains and exposes multiple forms of racism: overt and covert, interpersonal and institutional, historical and present day, persistent and nascent 10 EXAMPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND HOW IT WORKS A coalition of NYC Black Lives Matter activists and environmental justice groups marching on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X at the NYC Solidarity Rally for Flint in New York City,

on Feb. 21, 2016.

BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD A little policy research showed that, in Washington, bread was one of the few homemade foods the state health department allowed to be donated to food banks without needing to be made in a licensed

commercial kitchen.

BLACK FARMERS EMBRACE PRACTICES OF CLIMATE RESILIENCY But the same communities on the frontlines of climate impact are also on the frontlines of climate solutions. A new generation of Black farmers is using heritage farming practices to undo some of the damage brought on by decades of intense tillage by early European settlers. JOIN THE YES! TEAM FOR THE PLASTIC FREE ECOCHALLENGE 26 minutes ago · Join YES! for the Plastic Free Ecochallenge, a month-long effort to help all of us to shift away from our single-use plastic dependency and to care for our ecosystems. MAKING HEALTH CARE ACCESSIBLE—BY AIR 2 hours ago · Eileen Ambrosini moved to the small town of Atwater, California, in 1979. Over the next three decades she met her husband, raised her daughter, and worked as a high school French teacher, all in the heart of the state’s agricultural corridor. But when Ambrosini was diagnosed with breast cancer in 7 THINGS I LEARNED BY COLLABORATING WITH INDIGENOUS WISDOM Directors of the film One Word Sawalmem, Michael “Pom” Preston and Natasha Deganello Giraudie. 1. WISDOM. Indigenous wisdom is human wisdom, which has been miraculously preserved by Native people. For thousands of years, as people indigenous to the Earth, we all prioritized a relationship with nature, grounded in kinship, centered around reciprocity, and infused with reverence. However THE DANGERS OF WHITE MALE SUPREMACY 1 day ago · I’m a natural to review Ijeoma Oluo’s new book, Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Seal Press, 2020). I am White, male, American, and when I taught at the University of Texas at Austin, I routinely joked that “the secret to my success is that I’m mediocre, and I know it DOCTORS PUSH TO BRING REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE BACK TO 1 day ago · In 2019, C.C., then an 18-year-old American citizen living on Guam, became pregnant, but knew she and her partner weren’t ready to be parents. “I come from a very toxic family and wanted to make sure I gave my child a better life than I had,” she said. C.C. also struggles with psychiatric THE TRANS HISTORY YOU WEREN’T TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS Other native cultures also display a deep respect for gender diversity. The Navajo tribe from the southwest United States have a gender category called Nadleeh, which can refer to transgender people who have transitioned in one direction along the gender binary (having been assigned male at birth, and now identifying as female, or assigned female at birth and now identifying as male), gender TOWARD FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IN ALASKA NATIVE COMMUNITIES When Eva Dawn Burk first saw Calypso Farm and Ecology Center in 2019, she felt enchanted. Calypso is an educational farm tucked away in a boreal forest in Ester, Alaska, near Fairbanks. To Burk, it looked like a subarctic Eden, encompassing 100 YEARS AFTER THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE, WHAT HAVE WE Langston, founded in 1890, is where the historically Black college, Langston University, founded seven years later, is located. The town and college are named after John Mercer Langston, the prominent Black abolitionist and attorney who served in the House of Representatives during Reconstruction, and went on to be an ambassador, a civil rights activist, and the founder of Howard DO YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR CLIMATE CONCERN? Hello! Penumbra is a neat word, isn’t it? It sounds like Harry Potter spellery, a tiny incantation that Hermione would utter to make writing implements appear. Penumbra! Beyond its original, shadowy definition, the academics Andrew Gelman and Yotam Margalit propose a fresh meaning for this

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Catherine Armstrong . is a lecturer in American history at Loughborough University in Leicestershire, England. A historian of colonial North America and the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries, her main area of focus is the relationship between representations of the landscape and a changing conception of identity

in migrant groups.

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May 28, 2021.

THE TIME TO SECURE VOTING RIGHTS IS NOW OR NEVER That outreach includes registration drives, get-out-the-vote efforts, and now in 2021, pushing back against a slew of bills designed to strip voting rights from a large, mostly non-White part of the electorate. The obvious solution to this push by well-funded conservative groups is federal legislation. The For the People Act

would help more

YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Inequitable access to the internet became a glaring public health issue during the pandemic. Here’s how three communities addressed the digital divide equitably and quickly. In Cleveland, the nonprofit DigitalC has been working to provide equitable internet service since 2003, when it started IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 15. Start a daily meditation or mindfulness habit. It’s really just a matter of sitting still and watching your breath go in and out, training your mind to let go of every thought as soon as it arrives, and enjoying the stillness that lies within once the mental chatter has slowed, slowed, and finally halted. BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good. Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves. The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the

pandemic.

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YES! CROSSWORD: PROUDLY PUZZLED The month of June brings with it many things in the United States: longer days and warmer weather leading to the official start of summer, Juneteenth, and, of course, LGBTQ Pride. This month’s YES! Crossword taps in to all of those moments and more, offering a digital diversion for those of you CLOSING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE Inequitable access to the internet became a glaring public health issue during the pandemic. Here’s how three communities addressed the digital divide equitably and quickly. In Cleveland, the nonprofit DigitalC has been working to provide equitable internet service since 2003, when it started IN CALIFORNIA’S DRIER FUTURE, WHAT’S THE BEST INVESTMENT Once again, California is in a drought. Much of Northern California and the Central Valley are experiencing “acute water supply shortfalls,” and the Sierra Nevada snowpack, a critical water source for Californians up and down the state during the dry season, is all but gone already—just 6% of normal for this time of year.. California’s water system, already stressed by the dueling 50 WAYS TO STAY SANE DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC 15. Start a daily meditation or mindfulness habit. It’s really just a matter of sitting still and watching your breath go in and out, training your mind to let go of every thought as soon as it arrives, and enjoying the stillness that lies within once the mental chatter has slowed, slowed, and finally halted. BAKING HOMEMADE BREAD BECOMES A PUBLIC GOOD Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good. Community Loaves volunteers Megan Adams, left, and her mother, Shera Adams, donate their loaves to St. Leo’s Food Bank in Tacoma, Washington. Photo from Community Loaves. The Seattle-based Community Loaves project enlists home bakers to help those facing food insecurity during the

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