Civil Rights & Social Justice
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Dr. Gladys West, the trailblazing mathematician whose work helped lay the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday surrounded by family. She was 95. West’s journey began far from satellites and supercomputers. Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, she grew up in a segregated South […]
The Trump administration’s U.S. State Department has announced a sweeping new move: beginning Jan. 21, visa processing will be frozen for citizens from 75 countries. According to Newsweek, the halt—described by officials as “indefinite”—is part of a broader effort to reassess how visa applicants are screened under the government’s “public charge” rule. That policy evaluates […]
