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If you’re like most of us, you’ve spent the last four months working out with bodyweight workouts or curling wine bottles and itching to return to the gym where you can get in some serious strength training. As lockdown begins to ease, your local gym is likely opening its doors, too.
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The summer of 1990 saw a quiet riot speak volumes after Black organizations staged a boycott of Miami’s tourism industry, costing the city between $5 million and $12 million in the first three months alone. And the silence of the Black dollar was only starting to suffocate the city’s economy.
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Widespread protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd have sparked a national conversation about racial justice. In this roundtable discussion, activists, artists, policymakers, and scholars explore how that conversation is taking shape in Las Vegas. How can street rallies translate into real change?
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Our country might still be mired in pandemic-born states of social isolation, but on the walls of Core Contemporary gallery in the Historic Commercial Center District, 20 artists meet in visual conversation. The occasion? The gallery’s second annual national juried art show, Use Other Door.
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One June day in 1964, Gerald Gault and a teenage friend made a bad decision. They made an obscene phone call to Ora Cook, Gault’s neighbor. She called the police, and both boys were arrested and taken to a juvenile detention facility in Gila County.
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The open-air spaces, soft colors, and diffused natural light at First Place Apartments in Phoenix and the Delores Project in Denver could transfer to almost any contemporary residential space. Their welcoming tones demonstrate a mass appeal. More important, though, those design elements also offer a lifeline to traumatized individuals trying to gain a foothold on life.
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In the first grade, Octavio Muro remembers hearing giggles and feeling a deep sense of shame and embarrassment when he struggled to understand a request from his teacher to introduce himself to his classmates.
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Calls for social justice amid the Black Lives Matter Movement has renewed focus in addressing the ignorance of the past, including the often-overlooked history of black cowboys and the significant role they played helping shape the American West.
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