Young adult author Jordan Ifueko has created new worlds with her best-selling series Raybearer, centering Black characters and workers.

It’s time to let all voting-age Americans influence their government.

While Project 2025 would stymy climate data collection, a network of grassroots volunteers are braving hurricanes—including Milton and Helene—to collect and share local data that can ultimately save lives.

The planning profession is rooted in principles that puts business ahead of people. Some people are beginning to push back.

Fed up with capitalism’s destruction and inequality, there is a growing movement to build a new model based on “people’s prosperity.”

Expanded federal funding for child care ended Oct. 1, and in many cases, extended families, including grandparents, will shoulder the burden.

While the U.S. government refuses to use its considerable power as leverage for peace, ordinary Americans seem to know better.

As baby boomer business owners retire, their employees are taking ownership of their own futures.

Rethinking our connection to the soil can form the basis for new ways of thinking about prosperity and economy

Author Scott Fulford explores the impact that pandemic-related government social spending had on American families.

A new database of tribal constitutions tells a more nuanced history of self-governance than the one explained in textbooks.

Across the country, activists are battling gentrification and working to build sustainable cities that don’t displace working-class communities of color.

The National Black Farmers Association just won a historic $2.2 billion in reparations from the U.S. government.

For the city’s LGBTQ community, Toronto’s outdoor spaces have been sites of both liberation and violence

Advocates are working to overcome patriarchal structures worldwide that deny menstruating people dignity, access, and agency.

AI is trained on data from our health care system as it exists, which means the data is contaminated by racial, economic, and regional disparities. But there are solutions.

Efforts to decolonize the herring roe harvest in Alaska highlight the contrast between tribal subsistence practices and the Department of Fish and Game’s management strategy.

In the months prior to Vice President Kamala Harris’ nomination to the Democratic presidential ticket, I felt a lingering fear in my body about what it would mean for Black

Birth workers serving Black pregnant people maintain the holistic methods—and data privacy—that distinguish doula care from the medical-industrial complex.

New findings challenge the political adage that youthful idealism gives way to conservative pragmatism with age.

The bond between people and their pets can be life-saving, especially amid the struggle for safe housing.

When it comes to the often-taboo topic of abortion, the authors of "Liberating Abortion" are eager to share their wisdom with anyone considering accessing this form of health care.

Para los inmigrantes que enfrentan pérdidas desde lejos, el apoyo puede provenir de la comunidad, nuevos rituales y mejores políticas.

From the depths of the sea, whales are urging us to recognize our shared history, fate, and future, writes Michaela Harrison.

As we await election results, Vilissa Thompson reminds us that hope is a discipline that we cannot cede to despair.

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Newsround presenter De-Graft Mensah tells the story of his trip to Ghana where he found out more about his family's history and the impact of the British Empire in the West African nation.

Newsround has been finding out how the cost of living crisis and rising prices have affected children living in the UK.

With record numbers of families living in temporary accommodation, Newsround reporter Shanequa Paris investigates how children are being affected.

Anna, aged eleven, won a competition to open Latitude Festival with her poem, The Mother Tree. She told Newsround about her experience.

Mr Trump will announce his wider plans for his government in due course, but here are some of the big issues he talked about during the election campaign.

Cyberbullying is a problem we hear more and more about in the news. In this special Newsround, Ricky meets the kids who have been affected by bullying online.

It's Stand Up to Bullying Day. Find out more about the different ways in which bullying can happen.

Nope you're not seeing double! Take a look at the new wax figure of Mary Earps at Madame Tussauds.

Many schools across the UK will be marking Anti-bullying Week, but what is it all about?

Do you remember Pesto the king penguin chick who reached stardom in September? Zookeepers say he is now entering his "awkward teenage phase".

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The latest job change announcements from the electric power and cleantech sectors. CMS Energy named Tonya Berry as SVP of Transformation and Engineering. She previously served as VP of gas operations responsible for gas transmission, distribution, and the integrity of the company’s gas system. She now will be responsible for electric and gas engineering, as well as resource planning, project […]

When combined cycle plants are run at low loads, problems often arise with overspray from attemperators using traditional mechanical atomization. To address this issue, plants can upgrade to steam atomization attemperators.

Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education invite you to watch their digital forum entitled "Educating for Global Coompetitiveness" on Friday, June 13, 2014 (Speakers are from 8:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. CST).

Featured speakers are OSU President Burns Hargis, CareerTech State Director Dr. Robert Sommers, Tom Vander Ark, and David Cillay.

I've had the opportunity to previously meet and discuss customized learning with Tom Vander Ark, author of Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World and CEO of Getting Smart, a education advocacy firm, but I'm excited to hear his newest thoughts on the subject and how learning is becoming more competency-based.

Dr. Cillay, Vice President of WSU Global Campus, led the 2012 launch of the Global Campus, which includes WSU’s online degree program. His responsibilities include expanding WSU’s market share, supporting faculty in technological innovation and using e-learning tools to ensure that WSU remains open and accessible. I'm also excited to learn from this presentation as it should add great value to what we are trying to accomplish with digital delivery at the Oklahoma Department of Career and Technology Education.

Please join the discussion on Twitter at: #DLFTalk and click here to watch this free live event!

The auxiliary DC control power system is considered the most crucial element of a protection, control, and monitoring system. The failure of the direct current (DC) control power can result in the inability of fault detection devices to identify faults,... Read more

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To be honest, transmission and distribution networks are full of problems. But that’s nothing new, and you already knew that. This technical article will shed some light on solving some pretty severe problems in transmission and distribution networks by using... Read more

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