by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Global/Community
LISTENING to John Francis recount his fifty-six years, you might not guess that he was silent for seventeen of them. Looking at his dreadlocks and gold earring, you wouldn’t imagine that he once had a desk job with the U.S. Coast Guard. Idling next to Francis on the...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Global/Community
A society without structure, the Ogiek have long roved the highland Mau forests of Kenya hunting and gathering honey, needing neither chief nor council. Now they are fighting for their lands and their lives. And, with help from Survival International, they are...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Global/Community
Profiles & News American University, School of Public Affairs Political Communication Grad Masters the Field The Headscarf Divide: Sarah Fischer Against Juvenile “Death by Incarceration” SPA PhD Grad Wins Volcker Award for Groundbreaking Research on...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Global/Community
Homeless people with mental illness are often punished for “nuisance crimes” they can’t help committing. But Officer Joel Fay knows how to help them get their lives on track. IT’S NOT WHAT YOU’D EXPECT to hear on the streets, but ask...
by staff | Jul 26, 2019 | Food
HOW MUCH are coffee farmers getting from that three-dollar latte? The global price of coffee has plunged nearly 50 percent in the last three years, in turn plunging some 25 million small-scale coffee producers in poverty, according to hunger relief organization OxFam...
