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At Oasis, St. Louis tutors reach across generations to foster learning

1 year 9 months ago

At a desk wedged between a hallway vent and a classroom door, Marge Mangelsdorf coaxed Harlan to write down what he remembered.  The two had just finished reading Hi! Fly Guy, a popular children’s book about a boy and his pet bug. Now it was time for Harlan, a first grader at Bayless Elementary School […]

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Kevin Mahnken

‘They scrapped us’: The Trinity downwinders and New Mexico mine workers who remain unrecognized

1 year 9 months ago

Those living nearest to the first nuclear blast in history have suffered for generations.  In New Mexico, Trinity Test site neighbors weren’t warned or evacuated before the U.S. government detonated the atomic bomb in 1945. The light was so bright it could be seen hundreds of miles away. Nearly half a million people resided within […]

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Danielle Prokop