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  • Behind the new picture of food insecurity in Detroit, and those fighting it

    Anna Clark

    October 06, 2020 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    When the lockdown first began, Detroit Public School Community District (DPSCD) alleviated food insecurity by providing 18,000 meals and learning packets weekly to children as well as any Detroiter in need. Now students who are taking classes virtually can still receive meals in person. Anyone else in Detroit can also come by Monday to Thursday to pick up food to go. Food banks and pantries are also pivoting to meet the needs of the community during the pandemic.

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  • Metro Detroit's environmental organizations are largely white. Some are working to change that.

    Anna Clark

    August 13, 2020 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Several environmental groups in the Detroit area are coming to terms with the lack of racial diversity in their organizations. Huron-Clinton Metroparks released a plan to make their parks more welcoming and accessible to everyone, regardless of race and ethnicity. The Friends of the Rouge watershed organization has partnered with other nonprofits to explore race and organizational culture within their own groups. While many of these initiatives have just launched, many groups are taking crucial steps to address environmental injustice within their ranks and how it trickles down to the people they serve.

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  • The City That Unpoisoned Its Pipes

    Anna Clark

    August 08, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Lansing, Michigan

    The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has left the city in dire straits without funds or political will to replace its lead pipes. Less than fifty-miles away, the city of Lansing has managed to replace almost all of its pipes, even during the Great Recession. Between Flint and Lansing, divergent approaches to management of utilities, funds, and citizen health provide extraordinary lessons about what worked and what caused the failures.

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  • 11,341 Rape Kits Were Collected and Forgotten in Detroit. This Is the Story of One of Them.

    Anna Clark

    June 23, 2016 |

    ELLE Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    In the past six years, backlogs of untested rape kits have been discovered across the country. Under the leadership of county prosecutor Kym Worthy, Detroit saw the nation's most ambitious—and effective—response to its backlog.

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  • How Houston Solved Its Rape Kit Problem

    Anna Clark

    November 20, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Most U.S. cities are sitting on thousands of backlogged rape kits that have gone untested. Yet in 2010, Houston (under newly elected Mayor Annise Parker) began an effort that ultimately eliminated its own staggering backlog of 16,000.

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