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When Kianna, 17, returned home to the Philippines island of Daram for the first time in several years, she was sad to see that her family still hadn’t been able to rebuild the home they lost in a ...
GAINESVILLE, FL – “Changed,” Alonzo Young says, surveying the cafeteria of the high school he graduated from in 1973. Young was there when the school was founded. He remembers both the pain and the ...
When rioters burst into the United States Capitol building last week, the images of broken doors, shattered windows and vandalized offices were shared worldwide, but the most lasting damage done Jan.
CERRO CORÁ, Brazil — Antônio Acelino de Moura, 65, says he imagined the future had finally arrived at his community in the northeast of Brazil when, in 2012, he heard the news that a wind farm would ...
This dispatch is part of a series in collaboration with PBS American Experience that explores the expansion of voting rights in communities across the U.S., part of a larger series called “On the ...
Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes / Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. St. Ann’s Avenue and 139th Street is nondescript, as far as corners in the South Bronx go. The ...
HARTFORD, Ct. – When Ashley discovered she was pregnant with her first child, the Hartford County resident wasn’t sure who to turn to. As a Black woman who’s over 35, she’s well aware of the ...
HONOLULU — Navy veteran Mike Plowman, 55, surfs nearly every morning. His home looks out on the vast Pacific Ocean from the seaside community of Ewa Beach, an idyllic sandy beach shaded with palm ...
PALACIOS, TEXAS — As other Texans fixed busted pipes and paid off electric bills after the February freeze, Shane Nicaud had to bury 1.5 million pounds of dead redfish into the ground. Nicaud, the ...
CHARLESTON – If a child has to leave home and enter the foster care system, the hope is they will stay with a loving family or in a nearby group home. But in West Virginia, hundreds of foster kids end ...
Imagine a noise similar to an airplane flying over your house at a low altitude. This is what residents of Sítio Sobradinho, a community of Caetés city, a rural area of Brazil’s Pernambuco state, hear ...
As the number of homeless Californians swell, the state is spending unprecedented dollars to build tens of thousands of housing units for people living in shelters, vehicles and encampments.