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On a cold February evening in Milwaukee, the parking lot of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee’s main mosque fills with cars that do not belong to its regular congregation. Neighbors from the surrounding suburbs, university students from Marquette, retirees from Wauwatosa, and families with young children file through the doors,…
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Few things are as quietly heartbreaking as seeing plastic bags snagged on reeds, takeaway containers bobbing along the water, or old mattresses dumped among the bushes of a once-pristine riverbank. For the Liesbeek River in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs, that image is all too familiar, but it is also a battle that has been fought with love and persistence for more than a decade. The Taking Rubbish Away, Saving Habitat project—better known by its apt acronym, TRASH—is now appealing to the public to help carry that fight forward. Run in partnership with the long-standing environmental group Friends of the Liesbeek…
My name is Fatima Musa Muhammad, a 400-level Mass Communication student at Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria, and when I think about elections, I remember the first time I stood in line to collect my voter’s card. The air was heavy with anticipation, but many people around me seemed uncertain about what the process really meant. Some were excited; others were simply going through the motions, holding their papers and looking at the crowd as if waiting for someone to explain why we were all there. That memory stayed with me because it captures something essential about young Nigerians…
