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Morris: Can we talk about George Floyd?
As the five-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder approaches, Opinion Editor Phil Morris invites you to be part of the ...
COVID-19 put the spotlight on the region’s health equity leaders. Five years later, they are targets.
The pandemic laid bare inequities that Boston's greatest minds worked hard to address. Five years later, some of these actions are under fire from the Trump administration.
Crime is nonpartisan and the blame game on crime in cities is wrong – on both sides
As others have said: crime is nonpartisan. Crime has decreased across the U.S. during the past three decades overall, and the ...
Douglas Belkin
Doug Belkin covers higher education and national news out of the Chicago bureau of The Wall Street Journal.
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‘We all need music’: Barrington High School orchestra teacher recalls lessons during pandemic
When COVID-19 forced Barrington High School to go remote in March of 2020, orchestra teacher Clark Sheldon faced a daunting ...
Black L.A. social spaces flourished after George Floyd. 5 years later, will they survive?
Several Black small businesses in Greater Los Angeles have recently shuttered, with owners saying support initially garnered ...
USA Today19d
Five years after COVID-19, are we ready for a new pandemic? | Opinion
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for clear communication, robust scientific research, and proactive engagement with the public to combat misinformation. Social media's role in ...
Chicago Tribune1mon
Five years since start of pandemic, Aurora school districts talk technology, mental health and lessons learned
The seniors she’d met the year before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this group ... tensions in 2020 following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “That too was a huge part ...
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Advanced cancers returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a reassuring report
but then returned to pre-pandemic levels by 2021. The size of the 2020 decline in new cancers diagnosed was similar across states, despite variations in Covid-19 policy restrictions. The ...