Across the United States, thousands of Indigenous women and girls have been reported missing or murdered. On some reservations, this population faces a murder rate 10 times higher than the national average, with 84% of Native American and Alaska Native women approximately 1.5 million women experiencing some form of violence during their lifetime. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, murder is the third leading cause of death among Native women between the ages of 15 and 24.
There hasn’t been enough reported data on the missing women and girls, making it difficult to investigate such cases, says Shaandiin Parrish, Miss Navajo Nation since September 2019. The reports that do exist don’t adequately represent the extent of the missing and murdered population. Some databases like the one run by the Indigenous-led research group Sovereign Bodies Institute have documented around 2,300 missing and murdered individuals. Another study by the Urban Indian He
Derry Township School District voters are urged to make the right C.A.L.L. | Opinion
Posted May 05, 2021
By Melinda Curran
The upcoming election for School Directors in Derry Township School District is highly contested with six candidates running for four seats. The voters of Derry Township have an imperative to choose candidates for their school board who have the knowledge and experience in education to support the district during its current challenges and upcoming endeavors.
Stephen Ampersand, Guerline L. Laurore and I are, without question, the three best and most highly qualified candidates for the job! Ampersand, Laurore and I are the right C.A.L.L. (Curren, Ampersand, L. Laurore) to represent the best and brightest futures for Derry Township students.
A seemingly intractable lack of diversity blemishes the otherwise strong reputation of the University of Colorado s flagship campus in Boulder. Throwbacks looking for immersion into white, homogenous, coercionist groupthink need look no farther than the Boulder campus to find Nirvana.
This is nothing new and the faculty seem to like it.
To uphold white, privileged groupthink as an officially accepted worldview, the Boulder Faculty Assembly voted for more of it last week. They censured CU President Mark Kennedy, a man who has arguably done more than any other single person to diversity a campus that ranks among the country s least diverse in terms of ethnicity and philosophy. Incredibly, even laughably, the nearly all-white faculty censured Kennedy on the pretense they want more diversity. Their complaint charges Kennedy with “failure of leadership with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Mon, 05/03/2021 - 11:50am John McCright Anaïs Mitchell
MIDDLEBURY Anaïs Mitchell, acclaimed playwright, composer and musician, will deliver the 2021 Middlebury College Commencement address on Saturday, May 29. A New Haven native, 1999 graduate of Mount Abraham Union High School and 2004 Middlebury College graduate, Mitchell is the creative force behind the hit musical “Hadestown.”
One of the leading artistic voices of her generation, Mitchell began work on “Hadestown” a reimagination of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice years before it appeared on Broadway. The production debuted in Barre, Vermont, in 2006 before it toured across New England. Mitchell gained international recognition following the premiere of “Hadestown” in Alberta, London and then New York, where it opened in 2019. Later that year “Hadestown” went on to win eight Tony Awards and Mitchell won the Tony Award for Best Original Score. In 2020 the show also won
A seemingly intractable lack of diversity blemishes the otherwise strong reputation of the University of Colorado s flagship campus in Boulder. Throwbacks looking for immersion into white, homogenous, coercionist groupthink need look no farther than the Boulder campus to find Nirvana.
This is nothing new and the faculty seem to like it.
To uphold white, privileged groupthink as an officially accepted worldview, the Boulder Faculty Assembly voted for more of it last week. They censured CU President Mark Kennedy, a man who has arguably done more than any other single person to diversity a campus that ranks among the country s least diverse in terms of ethnicity and philosophy. Incredibly, even laughably, the nearly all-white faculty censured Kennedy on the pretense they want more diversity. Their complaint charges Kennedy with âfailure of leadership with respect to diversity, equity and inclusion.âDo not fall for this ruse. If they want diversity, which clearly they do not,