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Before You Try to Decolonize Your Diet, Read This

Chelsey Luger Yes! Magazine
The intensification of corn impacted indigenous health, for better and for worse. Increased corn consumption often meant fewer micronutrients as corn replaced other foods in their diet.
Decolonizing the Diet: Nutrition, Immunity, and the Warning From Early America explores how the forces of nutrition, immunity, environmental change, disease, settler colonialism, and other factors have influenced the health of Native Americans.

Alternative Schools Bear the Brunt of Student Deaths in Chicago

Kalyn Belsha and Cayla Clements Chicago Reporter
Some 425 Chicago public school students died between the 2013-14 and 2016-17 school years. One in four attended an alternative high school, though these schools accounted for only around 2 percent of the district’s enrollment.

The Trump Administration’s Continued Attack on Science

Romany Webb and Lauren Kurtz Climate Law Blog - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
When this tracker was launched, we had 96 entries, almost two attempts to silence science each week during the 14 months after President Trump was elected. Since then, the Trump administration’s attacks on science have accelerated.

Why Do We Pledge Allegiance?

Jack David Eller Boston Review
This was the first incarnation of the Pledge of Allegiance, composed by Bellamy, though conspicuously missing two prominent elements, namely, any mention of the United States or of God.