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By Oriya Cohen and Maya Brennan, Housing Matters, May 8, 2021 Suburban communities across the United States are rapidly diversifying. As suburbia becomes less white, new residents have reshaped its form and use, expanding a particular version of the American dream to include their diverse histories and cultures. Asian Americans have been central to this process, overcoming a long history of exclusionary immigration policies and racially restrictive housing policies to stake their claim in...

By Melissa Borja and Jacob Gibson, Virulent Hate Project,, May 2021 ABSTRACT To understand trends in coronavirus-related, anti-Asian racism, the Virulent Hate Project at the University of Michigan reviewed 4,337 news articles published between January 1 and December 31, 2020. We identified 1,023 incidents of anti-Asian racism, which included 679 incidents of anti-Asian harassment and vandalism and 344 incidents of stigmatizing and discriminatory statements, images, policies, and proposals.

By Tom Wheeler, Brookings, May 19, 2021 Jackson County, Kentucky, has one stop light in its 347 square miles—but also high-speed fiber optic internet service to rival any big city. In the coal country of eastern Kentucky, the 800-person town of McKee is the hub of a one-thousand-mile fiber-to-the-home network covering two of the nation’s poorest and most remote counties. The fiber link was built almost entirely with dollars from the federal government. It is a powerful example of the...

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Amy Tan : Unintended Memoir Available on Netflix KPJR Films’ Feature Documentary Profiles Life of Respected Literary Voice in James Redford’s Final Film Amy Tan : Unintended Memoir , KPJR Films fifth documentary feature, is now available on Netflix. The film premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in February 2021 to critical acclaim and went on to be broadcast and streamed on American Masters/PBS in early May. In addition, the film was selected to screen at festivals including: Doclands;...

Our global online movie premiere of The Wisdom of Trauma, plus 7 days of conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté and leading experts in the field are coming up in just a few weeks. Five years ago, Dr. Gabor Maté was one of the keynote speakers at SAND. When we heard him speak, we felt deeply moved, not just by his powerful message and his incisive work, but also by his authenticity, piercing clarity and commitment to truth. Dr. Maté brings a very unique perspective to the epidemic of mental...

(l to r) Vincent Felitti and Brian Alman I’ve been helping people discover the root cause of their disease, physically, mentally, and emotionally—many of which are rooted in adverse childhood experiences—ACEs. Something that I’ve seen over and over again is a connection between ACEs and an unhealthy relationship with food that can lead to emotional eating and weight gain. Although people commonly get frustrated with diets and exercise programs that “don’t work,” the program’s not the actual...

By Ali Tadayon, EdSource, May 20, 2021 Giving low-income youth college savings accounts at a young age has emerged as a strategy across California to not only help families build financial assets, but also stoke tangible college aspirations. Such programs have sprung up in Oakland, Los Angeles and several other cities since San Francisco became the first in California in 2011 under then-Mayor Gavin Newsom to give every child entering kindergarten at San Francisco Unified a college savings...

By Megan Conn, The Imprint, May 11, 2021 For generations of New York parents, smoking a joint on the stoop or tucking some weed into a pocket has always come with the risk of not only a criminal charge, but the threat of being reported to child protective services. People of color and families living in poverty have long been the overwhelming majority of those tested for marijuana use, arrested and reported to child welfare agencies. But at the end of March, New York became the 16th state to...

By Samuel J. Heyman, Service to America Medals, May 2021 Each year, more than 20,000 foster children in the U.S. are sent into the world on their own when they turn 18. Within four years, nearly a quarter of them experience homelessness, often setting the stage for a lifetime of personal and financial struggle. Ryan Jones of the Department of Housing and Urban Development was struck by the urgency and depth of the problem in 2019 as he listened to former foster care youth from Ohio describe...

By Derenda Schubert, Renee Moseley, Lindsay Magnuson & Sarah Feldman, Stanford Social Innovation Review, May 3, 2021 On any given day in the United States, about 400,000 children are in foster care, living with and cared for by people who aren’t their biological parents. Many have suffered abuse, neglect, and other serious traumas, which frequent moves and separation from siblings can compound. While most of these children eventually return to their nuclear families, about 70,000 won’t.

By JS Lee, Health, May 19, 2021 A coworker once looked at me earnestly and asked, "How are you so 'together'? How do you have it all figured out already?" I was an art director with a beautiful office in my mid-20s. I smiled and sheepishly shrugged—but the truth was, my life was a mess. Learning to fake it is something I had mastered young; it's how I survived as an adopted child in an all-white family. I was the only Asian and adopted person in a family of seven kids. The New England towns...