Medha Kumar
Stories
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Arts & Life
The unlikely friendship of a baby donkey and a dog named Ranger at the Sammamish Animal Sanctuary
Last year 40 animals were rescued by the Sammamish animal sanctuary. While many shelters take in dogs and cats, this sanctuary focuses on rescuing farm animals.
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Arts & Life
The racist practice of mispronouncing names
Having people mispronounce your name isn't just annoying or embarrassing. It's racist.
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Arts & Life
My grandpa sang songs to fight for freedom. Now I sing them too.
Last summer, he sang a song I hadn't heard before. He told me what the lyrics mean: let us dance, and let us sing folk songs, because we have achieved independence. At first I was confused. What independence? From whom? And what's going on here?
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Arts & Life
'We're not supposed to feel unsafe:' back to school in the age of school shootings
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our...
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Back to school in the age of school shootings
The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida sparked a youth movement for change across the nation. In part two of our School Shootings in America podcast, we speak to teens in Seattle to see how they’ve been inspired to take action, and why this event was different than the ones before. Why now? What inspired these students to get involved in one of the nation’s most controversial policy debates, and what keeps them going?
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Six months after Parkland: 'Even to this day, it doesn’t feel real'
School shootings have been a horrifying reality in the United States for far too long. However, after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High...