From California to North Carolina, students staged chants and walkouts over the weekend in protest of Israel's ongoing military offensive in Gaza.
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Spring is in the air, and the bee is one of the most important parts of the pollination cycle. It provides pollination for plants while also producing honey to feed its hive. This week, Cheryl Furman will tell us why this should be celebrated and how The Humboldt County Beekeepers Association can help relocate wayward swarms.
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Election results. Birth certificates. Property deeds. Marriage licenses. Juan Pablo Cervantes has the kind of job that simultaneously undergirds democracy, family history, and property ownership - all through the boring-but-important power of paperwork. He's Humboldt County's Clerk, Recorder, and Registrar of Voters, "a title so long, it has punctuation in it," he says. "It's one of those offices that few people know about unless something goes wrong."
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Established in 2006, the North Coast Small Business Development Center, or SBDC, has been helping people start and grow small businesses across Northern California.
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Since 1981, The Humboldt Literacy Project has been connecting adults with tutors to help them learn how to read and write in English. This week, I met with Emma Breacain to learn more about how the HLP is working to help the estimated 13,000 people in Humboldt County who are considered functionally illiterate, meaning that they read below a fifth-grade level.
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McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing to champion are as salient as ever.
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Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
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An art installation called The Portal was shut down this week in New York and Dublin because of rude gestures and other bad public behavior, as NPR's Scott Simon explains.
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At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.
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Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences.
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Ian Roberts has competed in some of the most high-profile races in the world. But his biggest competition to date was a determined fifth-grader in jean shorts and Nike tennis shoes.