Even those on the front lines aren’t immune to the financial casualties of COVID-19. Dozens of healthcare workers at an emergency room in southeast Tennessee receive devastating cuts to their salaries—but the real cost could be the lives of their patients. When 26-year-old Carl Montgomery comes home from work, he immediately strips down, showers, and…
With a mission to spread the message of peace and hope from the Sahrawi people to as many people as possible, the artist Federico Guzmán summons us below the melhfas to his artwork Tuiza
Don José is an extraordinary man. At 78, he brings together the wisdom of the old man, the energy of a young man and the joy and purity of a child. Dominika Struk had the opportunity to meet him one spring afternoon at the Huerto del Rey Moro, a community garden managed by the residents…
Clara Duarte Ceballos in the Park of Prado de San Sebastián / EMILY MILAKOVIC Although same-sex marriage had been legal for years by the time Clara realized she was lesbian, the world she lived in had not caught up. “I thought I was the only girl in the world who liked other girls.” Clara Duarte…
The depopulation of many rural areas of Spain is creating as many challenges as it is offering new opportunities for those who have not joined in the exodus to the cities. Several residents of Las Infantas, in the province of Jaén, describe their tribulations and hopes living in a village of no more than 400…
Camp “Dignidad” (Dignity) is home to 19 of the more than 800 homeless people that live in Seville; evicted from their homes, jobless, foreign or sick. amongst them, there is also a poet, Manuel.
Ben DiFilippi and Katie Woodhouse met Ricardo P. Linares, an abstract painter who develops his work in one of the famous corralones of the Plaza de El Pelícano. The authors of this video report came to visit him in the late afternoon, when the intense activity of the place had decreased and only a few…
Mia Lee’s powerful reflection in this video essay on the condition of human beings. Why do we often desperately seek order in everything we do, in each of our creations? Is there something we miss, something we aspire to, something we yearn for without knowing it?
Even those on the front lines aren’t immune to the financial casualties of COVID-19. Dozens of healthcare workers at an emergency room in southeast Tennessee receive devastating cuts to their salaries—but the real cost could be the lives of their patients. When 26-year-old Carl Montgomery comes home from work, he immediately strips down, showers, and…
The dogs bark loudly at the sound of a key turning in the front door lock. When Davis enters through the door, Monkey jumps and spins in circles in uncontainable excitement. It seems to me that the arrival of my brother is a surprise for the dog, despite the fact that he is the only…
During the early outbreak of the pandemic in the United States, David Hobbie received two false negative results for COVID-19 tests, showing the lack of preparedness of the country for what would become its most important health crisis in decades. On March 11 de 2020, before a stay-at-home advisory was in effect in Massachusetts, David…
AN IMMERSIVE LOOK AT THE LIVES CONVERGING ON AN ACRE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN OXNARD. Every month in this county, hundreds of people over 60 open their doors or cars’ trunks to a box of food, and often there is a flower on top. These gifts are dahlias. It’s thanks to the head of the…
In March of 2020, Lehigh University announced that they would be going remote for the remainder of the semester in response to COVID-19. The student publication, which has reported since 1894 continued to publish remotely without missing a beat. Jake Epstein felt the freshness and renewal of a ski day in The Rocky Mountains as…
As told on his own words, this is the story of Jamir Mallory, a student from Ursinus College who overcame all sorts of personal challenges and benefitted from the support provided by others to pursue a career in education. Now he’s the one who can support and be a positive influence on others. BORN AND…
To fight our invisible enemy, the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of people have a simple role: stay at home in order to prevent spreading the virus; however, hospital workers risk their lives to diagnose and treat the infected. Amongst them is Stephanie Busselberg, an X-ray and CT tech at IU Health Saxony, a branch of…
Amidst the increasingly threatening Coronavirus pandemic, schools were canceled, leaving 2020 Seniors to mourn their last year of High School. March 10, 2020 “I wake up to the incessant buzzing of my phone on the nightstand at 8:00 A.M. I’d sleep the day away if I could, but my duties as senior class president don’t…
