the WE project news

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/12/lgbtq-family-holiday-cards-will-warm-heart/

From The Washington Post : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/12/06/what-the-latest-research-really-says-about-lgbtq-youth-in-schools/?utm_term=.35fdd6827893

... of Stamps, Arkansas, which was divided by the railroad tracks. Here are parts of her conversation with Bill Moyers, in a clip from 1982: https://www.facebook.com/moyersandcompany/videos/1789729501045053/?multi_permalinks=1794360563970007%2C1793854550687275%2C1793702614035802%2C1793383514067712%2C1793380060734724&notif_id=1514249302124487&notif_t=group_activity

How Latino immigrants are good for the U.S. economy (from The Atlantic ): https://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/jpmc-2016/with-a-little-help-latino-owned-businesses-may-be-the-us-economys-best-bet/1052/?utm_source=TL_ATL_O_1052

From The Washington Post : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/recruiting-insider/wp/2017/12/25/a-local-high-school-basketball-players-christmas-gift-to-a-special-needs-classmate-goes-viral/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_highschool-1227pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.a68f3dd74d69

https://www.facebook.com/MicMedia/videos/1744622118893904/

NPR is doing a series on how racism affects the lives of African-Americans in this country: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/12/20/570777510/how-racism-may-cause-black-mothers-to-suffer-the-death-of-their-infants

Here you will find links to news articles and podcasts relevant to educating people about the continuing plagues of racism, bigotry and intolerance, in Missouri and around the nation, and to furthering the cause of shining a positive and celebratory light onto people belonging to marginalized communities.  My first pick is a story in The New York Times magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/magazine/will-they-take-me-too.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmagazine&action=click&contentCollection=magazine&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront