More than than 20 years ago, Black farmers across the country won a discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Today, advocates and
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Whenever there s an analysis or discussion about how much people know about the Holocaust, the focus is often on what they don t know.
For instance, a 2018 survey of 1,350 people age 18 and older found that 11% of U.S. adults and 22% of millennials had not heard of – or were not sure if they had heard of the Holocaust.
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Almost half of U.S. adults 45% and millennials 49% could not name one concentration camp or ghetto that was established in Europe during the Holocaust, the survey found.
The survey also showed how there s an overwhelming lack of personal connections to the Holocaust. Most Americans 80% had never visited a Holocaust museum and two-thirds 66% did not know, or know of, a Holocaust survivor. A significant majority of American adults believed that fewer people care about the Holocaust today than before.
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Cary Boyce has been the President and General Manager of Spokane Public Radio since 2012. Before coming to SPR he was Station Operations Director at WFIU Public Radio. Born in Santa Rosa, California in 1955, Cary Boyce studied at California State University, Sacramento, took his Master of Music degree at University of North Texas, and he earned a doctorate in composition at Indiana University Bloomington. He has been an active participant in diverse artistic and musical outreach endeavors of his community, not only as a composer, but also as a producer and music essayist with public radio, online journals, major orchestras, and community presses.
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A bill that takes away local governmentsâ power to choose utilities generated without fossil fuels and that places multiple barriers for state universities to choose how they acquire their power sources is making its way through the Indiana legislature.
House Bill 1191, authored by Rep. Jim Pressel and passed by the Indiana House of Representatives by a wide margin, seeks to remove the power of local governments to place restrictions on public utilities based on the energy source of their services.Â
The bill would make it against the law for towns, cities and counties to decide to reduce the climate change impacts of local public utilities by moving away from greenhouse gas-emitting sources, like coal-fired generation or methane-laden natural gas.Â