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News Source: YES! Magazine

Asian family in bakery, Chicago, Illinois, 1987. (Photo by James Newberry/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)

For Asian immigrants, cooperatives came from the home country

From Yes! Magazine – a look into how Asian immigrant communities have participated in mutual aid throughout the history of American immigration.
ARAPAHOE, WY - MARCH 1: 9 year old Quiana Piper (center) and her 3rd grade class study using their iPads and the Arapaho language app that has been created to help teach the language and cultural at the Arapaho School in Arapahoe on the Wind River reservation. March 1, 2017, Arapahoe, Wyoming. (Photo by Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

How Technology Helps Preserve Endangered Indigenous Languages

From YES! magazine – Tribal members are using technology to their advantage, learning, documenting and invigorating indigenous languages.

Only Bridging Can Heal a World of Breaking

From Yes! Magazine – Diversity can be a great strength, but it is susceptible to manipulation when not accompanied by community leaders from all backgrounds willing and able to bridge across difference. The idea of “bridging” provides a path to healing…

How Photography Shapes Our View of Native Americans

From Yes! Magazine – Jacqueline Keeler
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline…

The Importance of Movies Like “Black Panther” and “A Wrinkle in Time”

From Yes! Magazine – Jennifer Burton & Julie Dobrow & Calvin Gidney. Yes, Black Panther is shattering box-office records. And A Wrinkle in Time is the first $100 million movie directed by a woman of color. But beyond all that, these films break the mold by showing the complexity and variety of black male and female experiences.

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