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April 2021

Many Older Adults Lack Even Simple, Helpful Equipment

The New York Times

Top Public and Private Colleges in the Northeast

The Wall Street Journal

American Police Are Inadequately Trained

The Atlantic

People Are Reporting Unexpected Side Effects After COVID-19 Vaccination—But That's Actually Normal

Time

After Chauvin's Guilty Verdict: A Trial for American Policing, the Struggle for Public Trust Begins Anew

USA Today

21 Experts on What the Verdict Means — and Where to Go From Here

Politico

Is There VR for Senses Other Than Sight?

Gizmodo Australia

Despite Public Outcry, Convicting Police in U.S. for Murder Remains Rare

Voice of America

Women’s Negotiating Style Is Not Responsible For the Gender Pay Gap

Boston Herald

Led by a Canadian, Law Students Report Online From War Zones

Toronto Star

Infections of Younger People Indicate U.K. Variant Surge In U.S.

Washington Examiner

Renowned Scholars Discuss the Role of the Black Intellectual in the 21st Century

Diverse Issues in Higher Education

Expert Breaks Down The Seconds Before Adam Toledo Was Shot In Body Camera Video

CBS Chicago

COVID-19 Vaccines Are Entering Uncharted Immune Territory

The Atlantic

Professor David Harris On Minnesota Police Shooting That Killed Daunte Wright

CBS Chicago

Coronavirus Vaccine Technology Is Paving the Way for a Whole New Approach to Flu Shots

The Washington Post

Neuralink Monkey Video Merely Shows “Rudimentary” Demo, Says BCI Pioneer

Inverse

The History Of Trans Children In Medicine

NPR

Americans Hit the Road to Get Vaccinations, Giving New Meaning to the Term ‘COVID Long-Haulers’

The Washington Post

Devoted to the Deaf, Did Alexander Graham Bell Do More Harm Than Good?

The New York Times

Good News About Coronavirus Emerges Even Though Double Mutant Variant Found In the U.S.

The Economic Times

"Staggering" Number of Children Have Lost At Least One Parent to COVID-19, Model Estimates

CNN

Kosovo Gets New President, Its Second Female Leader

AP

When Police Kill People, They Are Rarely Prosecuted and Hard To Convict

The Washington Post

NFT Price Crash Stirs Debate on Whether Stimulus-Led Fad Is Over

Bloomberg

An Overdue Reckoning for Black Freedmen on Native Lands

Boston Globe

'It Hurts People': How Trans Youth Are Being Targeted By State Legislation

NPR

CDC Reverses Statement by Director That Vaccinated People Are No Longer Contagious

The Hill

What We Know So Far About the Effort To Vaccinate Children

National Geographic

The Powerful Technology Behind the Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines

PBS Newshour

Women Resistance Fighters of WWII, the Secret Lives of Ants and Other New Books to Read

Smithsonian Magazine

'Trans Kids Are Not New': A Historian on the Long Record of Youth Transitioning in America

The Guardian

How to Spot Depression in Young Children

The New York Times

Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say.

The New York Times

March 2021

How Pittsburgh Became the Go-To Backdrop for Everyone in Politics

Politico

Is the U.S. Entering a Fourth Wave of COVID-19?

TIME

In Mutant Variants, Has the Coronavirus Shown Its Best Tricks?

Reuters

25 Under 25: Women of Color to Watch

Ms.

Pitt and Carnegie Mellon University Partner to Create Extremist Hate Research Center

Diverse Issues in Higher Education

'Extremely Unlikely' COVID Came From Lab Draft WHO Report Says, As Ex-CDC Head Touts Claim

Newsweek