Resilience in Hard Times

“There’s something about the quiet way racial bias works—how it doesn’t need to be shouted to do damage. The consequences are loud, even if the bias is silent.” “I wrote something recently on this—about how the justice system treats Black defendants vs. white ones—and it’s haunting to compare. Would be ...

In South Dakota, corn subsidies were reduced by 18%, forcing multi-generational farms to close. Job retraining programs were defunded. Community colleges lost their rural development grants. In small towns already reeling from pandemic shutdowns, it was a death blow. “My granddad farmed this land. I went to trade school to ...