social justice journalism
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Athens-Clarke County
Adopt-A-Mom Celebrates Single Mothers as Unseen Heroes this Mother’s Day
Every Mother’s Day, The Ark, a nonprofit organization that supports single mothers with financial assistance and educational resources, celebrates them with Adopt-a-Mom. With the help of donations from community members, the program gifts single mothers with flowers, handwritten notes, and this year, a brunch. Supporting low-income single mothers is about…
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Food
More Than Just an Allergy: UGA Student Shares Social Impacts of Celiac Disease
When Anna Jacobson, a junior at the University of Georgia, was in the fifth grade, she routinely became sick every morning at the same time during class, so her teacher would send her to the nurse’s office. Jacobson said she had always struggled with stomach issues, but she did not…
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Athens-Clarke County
Meeting Families Where They Are: Athens Area Diaper Bank Gets Distribution Van
Erin Campbell remembers feeling angry, sad and frustrated a decade ago after reading a statistic in a magazine: one in three families struggled with diaper need. Campbell, just a few weeks postpartum herself, was in a financially stable situation, but the thought of other new mothers having to clean and…
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Athens-Clarke County
Clarke Teachers Talk Representation, Life Lessons As Book Challenges Grow in Georgia
Ian Altman spends his weekdays teaching his students at Clarke Central High School about life. He assigns speeches written by James Baldwin, explains passages from novels by Toni Morrison and helps make sense of words written by William Faulkner. As an 11th-grade English teacher in his 18th year of teaching…