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The wear orange event, held the first weekend in June, is a way to remember Hadiya Pendleton, who was 15 years old when she was shot and killed in Chicago in 2013. Just one week earlier, Pendleton had performed with her high school majorette squad at President Barack Obama's second inaugural parade. In response to her death, Pendleton's friends asked others to wear orange to raise awareness about gun violence.

As the possibility of a new pandemic looms, influential figures are telling us we shouldn’t have been so worried about the last one. This spells trouble.

The historic and humanistic project of fashioning African futures entails retrieving the past and reconstructing the present, and investing our imaginations and energies in envisioning a world that valorizes our duality as social beings and ecological beings, living in harmony with each other and sustainably with nature.

The city of Richmond started rolling out bright purple and green compost bins at 20 locations in community gardens, libraries and more this summer.

Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels.

1-3" Rain by Friday - Dont Pack Away the Jackets Just Yet Soaking rains spill into Friday as a storm system temporarily stalls close to Minnesota, prolonging a flow of southern moisture. At least itll be rain this time around. Temperatures trend downward and jackets will be required next week, but no slushy relapses are in sight.   By Paul Douglas Text size Copy shortlink: Forecast Calls For Very Green Lawns When weather stalls ba...