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  'Sesame Street' puppeteer: Ji-Young makes AAPI communities 'feel finally seen and validated'

  USA TODAY - Thuan Le Elston

  It has been six months since "Sesame Street" debuted the show's first Asian American Muppet, Ji-Young, a 7-year-old who loves her electric guitar and skateboard. "The most surprising part of this whole introduction of Ji-Young into the world has been this insane outpouring of support from the Asian …

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  Amid the devastating baby formula shortage, moms are the only ones helping moms

  USA TODAY - Kelly Lawler

  Moms in local communities are helping other parents find formula amid the national shortage. And it's the only good news right now. In the Facebook group for mothers in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, where I've been a member since my daughter was born six months ago, there are dozens …

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  We won't be erased. Church shooting strikes at our identity as Taiwanese Americans.

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  We come from elders who endured decades of silencing of the trauma that shaped their lives. We refuse to be erased. When my family immigrated to the United States, a couple from the Formosan Presbyterian Church of Orange County (Formosa is another name for Taiwan) helped us settle in and get …

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  Why you won't see a picture of Buffalo suspect on our front page. This is how we cover mass shootings.

  USA TODAY - Nicole Carroll

  We have a public-safety responsibility to share information, but we won't glorify a suspect or amplify hate and rhetoric. These are our standards for coverage of mass shootings. You won't see a photo of the Buffalo shooting suspect on our front page. And after the initial coverage, you'll see limited …

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  Why do young whites kill out of hate? Schools aren't teaching nation's racist past.

  USA TODAY - Eileen Rivers

  White supremacist ideology is dangerously alive in younger generations. And the fight against teaching students about race and racism in schools is signaling to them that they don't need to care. In a matter of minutes at a supermarket in a mostly Black area of east Buffalo, New York, a shooter …

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  Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial is horrifying to domestic violence survivors like me

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  The legacy of this aberrant display is to normalize and even glamorize intimate partner violence. It has been excruciating to listen to, read about or watch. For the millions who have been exposed to the gruesomely vicious testimony since the start of the libel trial that actor Johnny Depp is …