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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media As youth suicide rates climb and depression deepens across the United States, mental health experts are pushing for action that centers both evidence-based treatment and cultural belonging. At a recent news briefing hosted by American Community Media, speakers noted that effective care remains out...
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“We are artists,” Alec Ozawa says, “but we don’t create art for ourselves.” He and his fiancée, Ash Stewack, make art for others: for businesses, passersby, and neighborhoods. And most of the time, you won’t even find their signature at the bottom right of the piece. The Chicago-based sign...
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Massachusetts educators are praising federal legislation to ensure public schoolteachers make a minimum of $60,000 a year. Supporters say the Pay Teachers Act would help fill the more than 4,000 teacher vacancies statewide and ensure fully certified teachers are staffing schools. Cory O’Hayer, a social studies teacher for Boston...
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Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters Los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza trasladaron sus operaciones hacia el norte el jueves 17 de julio, a la capital de California, teniendo como objetivo un Home Depot en Sacramento, esta vez a más de 800 kilómetros de la frontera. El viernes, un juez de...
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Wendy Fry & Sergio Olmos CalMatters Border Patrol agents moved their operations northward Thursday July 17 to California’s capital, targeting a Home Depot in Sacramento, this time more than 500 miles away from the border. On Friday, a judge in Los Angeles ordered federal immigration agents to temporarily stop the “roving patrols” in...
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Cientos de millones de jóvenes estadounidenses están expuestos cada año al consumo de tabaco y cigarrillos en películas, programas de televisión y vídeos musicales populares, según el séptimo informe anual “While You Were Streaming” de la organización sin ánimo de lucro Truth Initiative. Las representaciones del tabaco han descendido...
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Hundreds of millions of American young people are exposed to vaping and smoking in popular movies, TV shows and music videos each year, according to the 7th annual “While You Were Streaming” report from the nonprofit Truth Initiative. Tobacco depictions are down in the most popular Hollywood shows but...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Diecisiete organizaciones de apoyo a las víctimas y supervivientes de la violencia doméstica han presentado conjuntamente una demanda contra la fiscal general Pam Bondi y el Departamento de Justicia, alegando que los nuevos requisitos de certificación menoscaban su capacidad para prestar servicios a todos...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Seventeen organizations that support victims and survivors of domestic violence have jointly filed a lawsuit against US Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department, saying that new certification requirements impair their ability to provide services to all who need them. Shortly after taking...