News (Page 149)
December 14, 2020
A Sea That Never Was and the Community That’s Paying for It
Once considered the jewel of the desert, the Salton Sea basin now poses potential health risks to the underserved communities of immigrant farmworkers who call the area home.
December 13, 2020
A Vermont Town Reckons with Its Past
Rachel Moore, Executive Director of Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont, 2020. [Credit: Adriana Teresa Letorney] (STOWE, Vt.) […]
December 12, 2020
New Jersey School Is Asked to Retire Name Offensive to Native Americans
Advocates for Native Americans, whose tribes once lived in New Jersey, are asking Indian Fields Elementary School to change its name.
December 12, 2020
Workers Keep Going in an Empty Times Square
The COVID-19 pandemic has stripped the area of its famous crowds. But the street workers soldier on.
December 11, 2020
Resilience is Woven into Philly’s Fabric Row
A historic section of Philadelphia known as a central point for business and commerce for over a century, South Fourth Street’s Fabric Row contains only seven fabric stores today. According to one source, there were around 25 fabric stores on Fourth Street in 1950. As the row has changed, so too have the fabric store owners and new small business owners looking to earn a living.