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Opinion | Colorblindness affects how kids learn. So why dont we screen for it?

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Jessica Wozinsky Fleming is a writer and editor who lives in Forsyth County, Ga. When my 7-year-old son, Everett, looks around our house, he sees the bright red Georgia Bulldogs flag on our front porch as a yellowish brown. Vibrant pink begonias in our garden are white. Inside his paint set, what looks to me like a kaleidoscope of dazzling pigments is to him a collection of murky browns, khakis, yellows and blues. Read More...

Pramila Jayapal on her path to Congress and creating political change

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Well, first of all, you can just look at numbers. I'm the first South Asian-American woman ever to serve in Congress. I am also one out of 14 immigrants out of 535 naturalized now serving. And, you know, if you look at the history of Congress, over 11,000 people have served. There have been only been 79 women of color who have ever served in Congress. And so just that tells you the barriers that exist. Read More...

Where did Victoria Lee go to high school?

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Victoria Lee, an American mixed martial artist with Chinese, Singaporean, and Korean ancestry who participated in the ONE Championship, died on December 26, 2022. Victoria Lee, the youngest competitor in the ONE Championship, was the sister of MMA competitors Christian Lee and Angela Lee. Ken Lee, a Chinese-Singaporean father, and his Korean-born Canadian mother gave birth to her (Jewelz Lee). She won the titles of Hawaii State Wrestling Champion, IMMAF Junior World Champion, and Hawaiian Pankration Junior World Champion twice each. Read More...