Meet the female force who halted a major development project to preserve her working-class neighborhood and make it a leader in clean energy

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Headshot of Elizabeth Yeampierre.
Elizabeth Yeampierre is the executive director of UPROSE — a Sunset Park community organization focused on sustainability and resiliency.

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Former Lululemon employees call the company's response to founder Chip Wilson's comments on DEI 'a slap in the face' to people of color

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Lululemon store
Lululemon has become a leading athletic-wear company since it was founded in 1998.

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A Korean woman was held captive in a basement as an initiation into a group called 'Soldiers of Christ.' She was tortured and starved to death.

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A December 2023 photo of a Lawrenceville, Georgia, home where prosecutors say the group Soldiers of Christ held a victim in the basement starving and torturing her until she died.
Prosecutors say the group Soldiers of Christ held a victim in the basement of this Lawrenceville, Georgia, home starving and torturing her until she died.

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The climate crisis forces Mongolian herders to endure worsening summer droughts and severe winter storms

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A man holds his cap as a sudden dust storm swirls around outside.

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Senegalese herders have raised livestock for centuries. Climate change is threatening their future.

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A photo of a group of white and brown cattle gathering around a small pond of water surrounded by dry dirt in Senegal.
Cattle gather around a small pond of water in Senegal.

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10 ancient artifacts that countries are still fighting over

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Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum in London
Greece has long called for the return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum.

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The WWII Tokyo firebombing was the deadliest air raid in history, with a death toll exceeding those of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Tokyo residents who lost their homes as a result of the U.S. bombings.
One million Japanese people lost their homes after the US bombing of Tokyo during World War II.

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How a California farmer is helping build a Black-led sustainable agriculture revolution

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A photo of Dennis Hutson (right) with his brother-in-law Kayode Kadara (left).
Dennis Hutson (right) co-bought the land for TAC farm with his sister and brother-in-law Kayode Kadara (left).

Jo Ann Baumgartner

My immigrant parents were scammed out of their entire life savings. I learned the hard way how it could have been avoided.

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Eric Jiang and his parents
Eric Jiang with his parents, Amos and Yan, who came to the US in the 80s.

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101 years before Rosa Parks, this woman integrated New York City's public transit

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Elizabeth Jennings Graham

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