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Image courtesy of The Community Farm In the UK, where the Black Lives Matter movement coalesced with a pandemic-provoked appreciation for green space and local food for all, questions of unequal land access and ownership are becoming impossible to ignore. Ursula Billington reports on some urban farms opening their gates to inclusion. The statistics speak for themselves: in England, 1% of the population owns 50% of the land. 98.6% of farm managers and holders are White-British. Just 3.5% of envi...

 the COVID-19 vaccine around the world. FASKIANOS:  Good afternoon and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Social Justice and Foreign Policy webinar series hosted by the Religion and Foreign Policy program. Im Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach at the Council on Foreign Relations. As a reminder, this webinar is on the record, and the audio, video, and transcript will be available on our website, cfr.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel, Religion an...

Fatema Z. Sumar, vice president of global programs at Oxfam America, and Trevor Zimmer, co-leader of the COVID-19 Vaccine Equity Project, discuss equ…

photo by: Seth Sanchez Free State Brewery company sales and distribution manager Jeff Jensen, left, and Lawrence sales ambassador David Leff, right, fill up a van with COVID-19 testing kits during the first week of March as part of a delivery to hospitality businesses in Lawrence. A collaboration among three Lawrence organizations has resulted in a robust COVID-19 testing program aimed at finding asymptomatic cases among community members who often interact with strangers. In December, the L...

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Vaccine Hesitancy Persists With three COVID-19 vaccines on the market, retailers continue to navigate reluctance among their workforce to get the shots. March 01, 2021 WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine last week, paving the way for distribution of a third preventative treatment in the United States. “The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention meth...

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Breckenridge’s Social Equity Advisory Commission, the first of its kind in Summit County, has spent its first few meetings discussing goals and setting its definition for terms like equity. Town spokesperson Haley Littleton explained that the town hired The Equity Project as a consultant to help the newly appointed commissioners get started. Similar to other town commissions, Littleton said the new commission will take care of housekeeping items, such as going over rules and regulations of th...

Whats in a name? Dr. Dwinita Nita Mosby Tyler explains her journey In this Voices of Change story, Dr. Dwinita Nita Mosby Tyler explains why she felt pressured to change her name, and why shes now reclaiming it. Author: Avicra Luckey Updated: 7:57 AM MST February 18, 2021 DENVER — For Black professionals, the pressure to assimilate to universally-acceptable names cause some to dim their light and even change their names.  Dr. Nita Mosby Tyler said she was amon...