Culture

Gateway Journalism Review's spring 2020 issue, The 1857 Project, explores the history of race in the Land of Dred Scott. 

The push for hydropower is inadvertently causing long-term environmental damage to traditional hunting grounds on Inuit public lands.

Six years after the conflict began in Ukraine, women's contribution to war are being realized. Still, they are facing barriers to equal treatment and forging their own paths instead.

In its spring 2020 print issue, GJR explores the history of race in the Land of Dred Scott. Call it the 1857 project because one of the most important chapters in the nation’s story occurred here with the Dred Scott decision reading blacks out of the Constitution and the Lincoln-Douglas debates the next year over whether America could endure part slave and part free. 

In the closing interview of the series, rubber tapper Raimundão reflects on the past, present, and future of the Forest Peoples Alliance.

The 12th episode of this series features a journalist, Elson Martins.

In the 11th episode of this series, Dede Maia discusses the history of forest peoples, the importance of memory, and the search for solutions to today's challenges.

Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam reflects on how her family has used food to heal and sustain themselves, from their time in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime to their current experiences with COVID-19.

Courtnesha Rogers faces a slew of challenges as she and her three young children live through the COVID-19 pandemic.

At the end of May, Iran was hit by a second wave of the coronavirus. Seven photographers have looked around different corners of the country to depict the difficult everyday life of women in Iran during the crisis.

The country’s largest African American street festival, Odunde, will be held virtually this year as it marks its 45th anniversary. The Philadelphia event typically draws half a million people and 100 vendors, spread out across 15 city blocks.

Catzie Vilayphonh, of Laos in the House, describes how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the sense of community and culture for many Americans including immigrants and refugees.