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BY ZAREEN TAJ | "Everywhere in Afghanistan, extremists are responsible for killings and hostile environments—but the genocidal killing of Hazara people is a targeted annihilation of my people. In just the past five years, the Hazara people have endured several mass killings in a small poor neighborhood, Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul. These killings target the young and educated generation of Hazara people, in an effort to stop the powerful generation of Hazara women who are paving new paths of progress and development in Afghanistan."

BY DR. MYRA JONES-TAYLOR | COVID-19 was an earthquake that shattered child care’s already unstable foundation. As we work to rebuild and strengthen the care sector, we can’t go back to a status quo that left parents, providers and children behind.

BY KATIE FLEISCHER | The COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously exposed the flaws in the current sex educational system in the U.S. and provided an opportunity to push for new methods of teaching comprehensive sex ed.