Nearly 100% of children living on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation qualify for the free federal meals program. This means that while in school students have access to breakfast and lunch regardless of cost. But what about the weekends? With an annual median income of just over $18,000, Cheyenne River families are often forced to choose one essential item over...
After a decade of displacement in IDP camps, hundreds of Yazidi families have returned to their homeland in Sinjar, with many more on their way. These families are coming back to homes that were looted and destroyed by ISIS in 2014. Despite some notable progress in restoring infrastructure and basic services, the community still requires substantial support from the...
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is vast – over 3,000,000 square miles. The distances families and elders must travel to access healthy food are long and prohibitive for many. Hundreds of families visit the Oyate Ta Kola Ku Community Center each month to access fresh food grown in our Medicine Root community gardens. They also come to receive food boxes, each filled...
Michael Lissner January 16, 2012 At CourtListener, we have always taken privacy very seriously. We have over 600,000 cases currently, most of which are available on Google and other search engines. But in the interest of privacy, we make two broad exceptions to what’s available on search engines: As is stated in our removal policy, if someone gets in touch with...
DURHAM, N.C.—In a letter sent today to Duke, 552 physicians are urging the university to halt the controversial practice of using and killing animals to train medical students. The letter, spearheaded by the national medical ethics group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, points out that no other medical school in the United States or Canada is known to...