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By Jeremy Herb, Lauren Fox, Priscilla Alvarez, Jennifer Hansler and Geneva Sands, CNN On Capitol Hill, congressional offices have transformed their

There must be proactive diplomatic efforts towards a dialogue with the Taliban in Qatar to safeguard the health of women and girls in Afghanistan. Image...

Global Atlanta Company Company Description The Carter Center is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1982 in Atlanta, GA, by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University. The Center has helped to improve millions of lives in more than 80 countries by waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope. The Carter Center is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering. It...

Portraits of James Scurlock remain scattered across Omaha a year after his fatal shooting. The plywood displaying his likeness that had covered the windows of a downtown coffee shop last summer now are held in the Durham Museum basement archives.  A billboard that demanded "Justice for James," which was briefly posted at 72nd and Dodge streets, now is tucked away at the Great Plains Black History Museum. And in the neighborhood where Scurlock grew up, a massive mural honoring "JuJu ...

Share May 12, 2021 On Nov. 3, 2020, at a polling site in Manhattan, New Yorkers cast their votes in the U.S. election. (Photo: Ron Adar/Shutterstock.com) The 2020 U.S. election was like none before it. Polarization was at an all-time high, with many on both sides mistrusting each other and the process itself. The pandemic introduced further complications, challenging election officials to find ways to ensure accessibility while keeping voters safe. Because of this, The Carter Center chose to d...

Global Atlanta Company Company Description “The Carter Center is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1982 in Atlanta, GA, by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University. The Center has helped to improve millions of lives in more than 80 countries by waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope. The Carter Center is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering....

The ailing and failing South American “liberator” is described in the novel as a man “shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at the moment reaching the finish line … ‘Dammit,’ he sighed. ‘How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?’” Trump is certainly dealing with multiple misfortunes, including the unique ordeal of a second impeachment trial (despite his acquittal), the humiliation of an election loss, hydra-he...

Sao Paulo honors victims of COVID-19 with memorial February 10, 2021 Trees representing life planted along with sculpture installation. Time capsule will reveal in 100 years messages of condolence from the time of COVID-19. The city of Sao Paulo is honoring its victims of the COVID-19 Coronavirus with the delivery of the first physical memorial of the municipality dedicated to the theme and installed in Carmo Municipal Park in the East Zone. In addition to planting native trees from the rain fo...

EMU announces first executive director of diversity, equity, inclusion Published Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, 9:40 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes and Spotify News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán. Photo courtesy Eastern Mennonite University. Eastern Mennonite University announced Tuesday the appointment of Dr. Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán as the inaugural execu...

Twitter Facebook Stacey Harris knows how important it is to be heard, because for a long time she wasn’t. “My parents just were not expecting me,” she says. “The queer, blue-haired Harvard Square kid just didn’t work for them. They didn’t get it, so they couldn’t get me. And it was very hard. So from 13 on, I wasn’t really with them.” In the long run she has thrived, with a happy family of her own and a career as Boston University’s associate director of Disability & ...