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‘Quinceañeras every weekend’: Nebraska’s Latinos are increasingly native born – and eager to keep traditions alive
October 03, 2024
Once fueled by immigration, Nebraska’s growing Latino population is now overwhelmingly native born. Like others before them, these younger Nebraskans are eager to hold onto their heritage.
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University of Wyoming forfeits volleyball game against team with trans player amid pressure from lawmakers
October 01, 2024
UW’s volleyball team is the third to pull out of a game with the San José State, which has a transgender athlete.
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Black farmers face specific, outsized challenges in rural mental health crisis
September 23, 2024
Farming is a demanding job saddled with stressors like increasingly unpredictable weather, rising input costs and changing commodity prices. On top of those issues, producers of color deal with the impacts of racism, which is linked to mental health conditions like depression and PTSD.
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America’s Rural South Is Paying the Price for Europe’s Energy
September 12, 2024
The nation’s largest climate bill could fuel the biomass industry, leaving Black communities like Adel, Georgia, to suffer the consequences.
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Dozens rally in support of Black farmer as neighbor charged with hate crime
September 10, 2024
The overwhelming response to the farmer’s case is the latest in what has been a flurry of attention on harassment targeting Tompkins County’s Black community. Members of an anti-racist community group recently organized by a local pastor were well represented in the crowd.
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While many rural Minnesota counties are losing people, Otter Tail County has more than ever. How’d that happen?
August 28, 2024
Jobs, housing and the appeal of lakes country are helping the county buck predictions of population loss.
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Justice Has Been Delayed for Black Farmers, and They’re Looking to the Next President for Answers
August 26, 2024
Black farmers ponder: Will Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz really create change if they’re elected into office?
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Bridging Access
August 17, 2024
Across rural America, communities of color may be facing barriers to health care, but they’re also laying the groundwork for a more equitable future. Whether it’s hospitals reopening, a community’s holistic approach to maternal care or the grassroots work to bring comprehensive services to immigrants, these stories led by Capital B and The Associated Press, offer a roadmap.
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Rural communities of color across the US find new ways to get the health care they need
August 16, 2024
Advocates, hospital and health clinic administrators and rural residents say changing disparities in health outcomes and health care services in rural America needs to start at the local level — especially in communities of color that may lack trust in the medical field.
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Bridging Access
August 16, 2024
Rural communities of color may be facing barriers to health care, but they’re also laying the groundwork for a more equitable future. Whether it’s hospitals reopening, These stories led by Capital B and The Associated Press, offer a roadmap.
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Punjabi Residents in the Central Valley Find a Lifeline in a Community-Led Health Program
August 15, 2024
While some Punjabi residents own farmland or other businesses and have built successful careers, others — particularly older and more recent immigrants working low-wage jobs — struggle to access critical health services and basic necessities.
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Weathering Storms
August 13, 2024
An in-depth look at why people don’t leave disaster-prone communities.
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Virginia’s pregnant women must travel farther as the maternity care crisis grows. Doulas are stepping in to fill gaps.
August 13, 2024
In the last six years, five maternity units have closed down across rural Virginia, impacting access to prenatal care. However, with the closures have come new models of care. Growing availability of doula services aims to ease maternal morbidity, particularly among Black mothers.
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Healing a Dark Past: The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South
August 12, 2024
When a rural hospital closes, there’s usually no turning back. Yet, these communities in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee worked across racial lines despite painful histories.
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Young Americans Returning to Rural for More than Just Holiday Dinners
August 05, 2024
Grassroots organizers and policy makers in states like Kansas, Nebraska, and New Hampshire are working hard to attract and retain younger generations choosing rural communities as their homes.
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