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Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The NFL, GENYOUth, Fuel Up to Play 60 and Reigning Champs Experiences (RCX) announced the return of GENYOUths NFL FLAG-In-Schools (FIS) and the opening of the programs national application for the 2021-2022 school year. Starting today, educators can apply for a FREE NFL FIS kit to enhance their physical education curriculum and equipment. Applications will close Wednesday, May 19th. The NFL, GENYOUth, Fuel Up to Pla...

Highpoint, Native Lands parks teach downstream lessons Jim McClure But, oh, the sights you see at the top are worth navigating those grades. The rewards of all that effort — seemingly thankless when you’re in the middle of those climbs — are indicative of the hard work that led to the acquisition of these hilltop vistas in the first place. But what resulted is worth those fights. Lawsuits. Eminent domain proceedings. Political opportunists. It took trench warfare to secure those hilltops....

When Native Americans protested the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, a Lincolnite joined the protest. He started his mission there, and then he kept going.  Leo Yankton, a Native American activist, received the Fulfilling the Dream award at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s MLK Commemorative Celebration on Jan. 28 for his efforts to break down the stigmatization of indigenous people.  “I would have to accept [the award] thinking that I will earn this. I will keep continuing to...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the way recent events are helping Americans come to terms with our checkered past.  Twenty-something years ago, I was chatting with a college professor at Prescott Park when the topic turned to American slavery. I noted, having recently interviewed historian Valerie Cunningham, that the first enslaved African in New Hampshire had arrived at this very spot in 1645.  Slavery is "a Southern thing" “That can’t be true,” my schola...

Daniel—a prominent activist and fourth-generation runner, who is also a member of the Runner’s World Runners Alliance ambassador network—saw races as an obvious place to make land acknowledgments. She has researched land acknowledgements for years by talking with elders and community advocates. In the process, she created a guide and toolkit that race directors can use, for free, to create land acknowledgments for their events. (You can find that guide here) When it comes to making land ...

SOLAR 2021 Call for Participation February 15th Deadline & Opening of ASES Award and Fellows Nominations 50th Annual National Solar Conference August 3-6, 2021 | Boulder, CO & Online | University of Colorado Boulder News provided by Share this article BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) has extended the deadline for submissions to the Call for Participation for their 50 th Annual National Solar Conference, February 15, 2021. SOLAR 2021 will ...

New England slavery lectures offered by Moffatt-Ladd House Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH — The Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, with support from the Vivian Treat Education Fund, announced Dr. Jared Ross Hardesty, associate professor of history at Western Washington University, will present two Zoom video conference lectures and discussions on the history of slavery in New England.  Hardesty is the author of "Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England" (Unive...

The Story Behind a Beloved Los Feliz Christmas Display Catherine Womack The Story Behind a Beloved Los Feliz Christmas Display Jöel Perez’s annual holiday display is a feast for the eyes, but there’s more to it than just sparkles, feathers, and lights On Black Friday, my little L.A. neighborhood had a big night: our neighbor, Joël Perez, lit his 2020 Christmas window display. Perez’s window is always a spectacle, but this year, in the midst of a pandemic that has confined us to our hom...

Arieta Vakasukawaqa 13 December, 2020, 10:00 pm Ratu Apenisa Kalokalo Sere Loki with relatives after being installed as Turaga Na Rokotuicolo at Tamavua Village on Friday. Picture: SOPHIE RALULU It is my duty to serve you all equally. This was the sentiment echoed by Ratu Apenisa Kalokalo Sere Loki after being installed as Turaga Na Rokotuicolo at Tamavua Village on Friday. The eight mataqali (clan) from the Yavusa Matanikutu celebrated the installation of their chief after a lapse of 33 years....