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With gap in state's LGBTQ+ history, 'activist archivists' step up to document it

James Rinker

October 28, 2023 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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Response Location: United States, Monadnock Region, New Hampshire

Local volunteers dubbed “activist archivists” are working to document the lives and contributions of LGBTQ+ people across the state, creating an archive of local LGBTQ+ history in the midst of recent anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that makes it difficult — and even illegal — to discuss and teach about LGBTQ+ identities and activism.

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Slow but steady progress on removing offensive place names in Oregon

Melanie Henshaw

May 24, 2023 |

Street Roots |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names and the Oregon Geographic Names Board are changing offensive and racist geographic place names in the state. When looking to change a name, the boards reach out to community members and experts for recommendations. They also review new name proposals that locals submit for both unnamed and named locations.

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L.A. high school's AP African American Studies course fills a void prohibited elsewhere

Jackson Tammariello

February 28, 2023 |

AfroLA |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Susan Miller Dorsey High School is the first school in California to pilot a new advanced placement African American studies course, which covers the history of Black social movements, societal achievements, and in the United States. Students in the course say it has exposed them to deeper knowledge about their communities and helped them express themselves.

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Finding forgotten Indigenous landscapes with electromagnetic technology

Geoff Manaugh

February 20, 2023 |

MIT Technology Review |

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Response Location: United States, Ohio

The Heartland Earthworks Conservancy finds and works to preserve ancient, Indigenous earthworks in Ohio. They use a device called a magnetometer to find electromagnetic remnants in the soil that reveal buried and disassembled structures like walls, ditches, and mounds.

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Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt saves a French dialect – and culture

Rhyan du Peloux

December 05, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Old Mines, Missouri

Fiddler Dennis Stroughmatt plays French Creole music, sings, and speaks in Missouri French to raise awareness about the language and culture no longer widely practiced in the region.

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The Tragic Testimony of the Daughters of Magdalene

René Ostberg

November 22, 2022 |

Sojourners |

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Response Location: Ireland

The Justice for Magdalenes Research organization is working to spread awareness and gain justice for the survivors of Magdalene laundries in Ireland throughout the 1900s. Women and girls were sent to laundries, kept there against their will, forced to work without pay, and severely mistreated.

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'We're reattaching people': Mobile history project connects neighbors in North Oakland

Celeste Hamilton Dennis

November 14, 2022 |

The Oaklandside |

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Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

HEAR/HERE is a mobile digital history project that documents and shares the stories of Black Oaklanders. The HEAR/HERE truck visits community events and gathering places and asks attendees to answer questions that are designed to help them connect with their neighbors.

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Vancouver Pays Tribute to Chinese Canadian History Amid Spike in Anti-Asian Racism

Amy Yee

October 25, 2022 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Canadian Museum and the Chinatown Storytelling Centre both opened in Vancouver with the goal of documenting and honoring the role of Chinese immigrants in Canadian history. Roughly 13,000 people have visited each museum since their openings, and members of the Chinese Canadian community say the exhibits preserve important stories while acknowledging the harm Chinese Candians have faced.

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In Croatia, a hotel trying to heal war wounds

Debbie Rolls

October 22, 2022 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Croatia

A hotel in a small Croatian village near the Bosnia-Herzegovina border has invested in regenerating and bringing together the community that is still scarred from the Balkans war in the 1990s. Hotel owners have refurbished 10 buildings in town, provide guests with firsthand accounts from village residents to learn about the region’s history, and follow staffing policies aimed at bringing together the ethnically diverse community by hiring equal numbers of individuals from the region's ethnic groups.

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How forensic science can aid the human rights movement

Nicole Iturriaga

September 27, 2022 |

Aeon |

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Response Location: Spain

The forensics-based human rights movement uses forensic science to identify victims of genocide and political violence buried in mass graves, allowing their families to arrange proper burial and bolstering collective history around these events. The strategy has been particularly effective in countries with state-imposed silence around past atrocities, such as Spain, where more than 9,000 bodies have been exhumed since 2000.

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