Non-Persons

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  Jennifer Deland

  

  It’s Time To Be Honest About Native American Boarding Schools In The U.S.

  HuffPost - Ian Kumamoto

  A Native-led coalition plans to digitize and share thousands of archival pages about schools that forcibly enrolled Native children and erased their culture. It’s no secret that the church played a major role in imposing colonial rule in North America. But if you grew up under the American education …

• Non-persons may have to enter into non-marriages.

  

  Jennifer Deland

  

  Tajik women turn to polygamy for survival

  DW English - Madina Shogunbekova

  Dire economic conditions are spurring an increasing number of women in Tajikistan to enter polygamous marriages. But it comes at the price of limited …

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  Jennifer Deland

  

  '10 Million Names': Learn more about the history of enslaved people of African descent, freedom colonies

  ABC News - GMA Team

  The project is working to recover the names of people enslaved before 1865. For many Black Americans, tracing one’s family roots back more than 150 …

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  Jennifer Deland

  

  New book 'The 272' traces enslavement practices in the US Catholic church

  ncronline.org - by Bernard G. Prusak

  It is a striking irony of history that the U.S. Supreme Court should have found affirmative action in college and university admissions …

• I believe it. They also close bank accounts, transfer income to creditors, and generally mess with people’s lives.

  

  Jennifer Deland

  

  ‘Incapacitated’ People’s Homes Are Being Sold by Their Guardians With Little Scrutiny

  VICE - Rebecca Gibian, Scott Mulligan

  Flipping the homes of people in guardianships is big business in Florida—and advocates and former wards are calling foul. The knock on Jan Garwood’s door one afternoon was unexpected. Garwood had been through a lot in the last few years: She suffered a major car accident, one of her sons died, and a …

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  Jennifer Deland

  

  What Happens When California Clears Its Homeless Encampments?

  The New York Times - Soumya Karlamangla

  A conversation with Livia Albeck-Ripka, who recently wrote about the closure of a camp in Oakland, one of the state’s largest. Over 171,000 homeless people live in California, more than in any other state in the country. For many Californians facing life without a permanent home, encampments can …