18May2015
Town Booted Out Mexico's Political Parties, But Now Some Residents Want Them Back
VICE News
In Cheran, Michoacan, some residents are now openly opposed to its citizen-led "high council" form of government, put in place here to great expectations just four years ago. And surprisingly, the dissident residents of Cheran want Mexico's old party system back in place.

18May2015
Join This Guy Biking 5,000 Miles to Fight Parkinsons
Yahoo! Travel
Ever wanted to bike for a really good cause? Now could be your moment. The Michael J. Fox Foundation is hosting an extreme bike ride this summer called 'Tour de Fox.'

18May2015
San Diego Nonprofits Help Tijuana Sex Workers Start New Businesses
KPBS News
More than 100 women who work in the sex industry in Tijuana were selected to receive microloans to start new businesses.

18May2015
Home-Brewed Heroin? Scientists Create Yeast That Can Make Sugar Into Opiates
The Guardian
Researchers have managed to reproduce the way poppies create morphine in the wild, but warn that the technology needs urgent regulation.

18May2015
Chris Gregory's 'Evidencia': Chasing Ghosts in a Cartel-Controlled Mexican Town
Wired
Scores of families have come forward to say they have loved ones missing in Iguala, and investigators have found clandestine graves throughout Guerrero. That prompted photographer Chris Gregory to ask a simple, yet troubling, question. “Who were those people, I wondered,” he says.

18May2015
'Scrub Me Mamma with a Boogie Beat': Growing Up with Cartoons That Were Racist
Wikipedia.org
Walter Lantz Studio's 1941 'Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat' is a cartoon awash with blackface stereotypes of African-American people and culture, and of life in the rural Southern United States.

18May2015
Human Rights Body Tells United Nations It Will Fight Mexican Disappearances
Television del Sur
Mexico's National Human Rights Commission told the U.N. it will work towards resolving cases of enforced disappearances, as well as toward preventing and punishing further cases.

18May2015
2016 US Presidential Candidates Weigh-In on President Obama's Immigration Action
Immigration Impact
Immigration policy has become a hot topic as the 2016 Presidential primary picks up steam. Hillary Clinton, Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush have all begun discussing their views on what they would do if they were President.


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