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Here, Now
The happenings that you should know about
May 11. 2021
Gaelynn Lea's pandemic year of music and activism
When the singer-songwriter and disability rights advocate from Duluth, Minn., saw how Covid-19 was disproportionately affecting people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups, she decided to raise her voice and do something about it in her hometown.
April 13. 2021
Quest for justice resumes as courtrooms open doors
The U.S. judicial system is designed for face-to-face experiences, but the pandemic changed that dynamic. As courts return to open sessions, judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys work to dig out of the deep backlog.
April 5. 2021
Senior workers man the front lines despite coronavirus risk
For millions of seniors, working during the pandemic is a life-threatening gamble as Covid-19 disproportionately affects the elderly. Debrah Dubay, who works at a hardware store in Taos, N.M., shares why she’s still going.
March 29. 2021
Spring break 2021: Students balance risks, rewards
The pandemic put a damper on college spring break 2020. One year later, college students — and administrators — consider alternative options as safety takes precedence over fun.
March 22. 2021
CCNY students fight for flexible grading during Covid
When The City College of New York undergraduate student president, Shza Zaki saw how the fallout from Covid-19 was hurting her classmates and their grades, she decided to speak up.
March 15. 2021
Remote-learning issues and pragmatic problem-solving
Student absence rates soared during the 2020-21 school year, but U.S. school districts, educators, and parents found some creative ways to satisfy elemental needs for online instruction.
March 8. 2021
Enterprising crafters help fulfill a critical need
With every stitch, solo mask makers have helped to keep millions safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. More than a year after the pandemic emerged, their face coverings are still necessary.
March 1. 2021
Indigenous communities: Not monolithically Latino
Recognizing that many immigrants are neither Mexican nor Spanish speaking, a major part of the Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo mission is Indigenous interpretation, which has provided valuable information about Covid.
Points of View
Our opinions on the happenings that you should know about
June 1. 2021
Virtual visits: a good change for incarcerated families?
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has instituted video visitations. Some feel this could be a lower cost and a more humane way to connect incarcerated people with loved ones and aid reintegration with the outside world, but others worry it could end in-person visits.
May 25. 2021
'This isn’t a sprint. We’re in a marathon'
Irna Landrum, who lives near George Floyd Square, shares with photographer Nina Robinson how she is living through this historic moment.
May 24. 2021
Tender moment disrupts Black fatherhood narrative
Photographer Patience Zalanga describes what she saw in this quiet moment in George Floyd Square, and what it can teach us.
May 24. 2021
My son wonders if George Floyd memorial will live on
Photographer Kyndell Harkness reflects on bringing her son, William, to George Floyd Square in June 2020.
April 20. 2021
For this nurse, his vocation is an extension of his culture
Nurse and historian Ren Capucao reflects on how his Filipino identity motivated him to study the history of Filipino nurses in the U.S. In doing so, he came to better understand himself and his mother’s journey into the nursing field.
April 15. 2021
This time, the mass shooting was in my hometown
Rock Hill, South Carolina, is like any other small town in the South — or anywhere — with two exceptions: It is my hometown. And on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, it witnessed a horror that seems to be running on replay.
April 12. 2021
Reflections from doctor who treated patient one in U.S.
‘We were fighting for every single life.’ In January 2020, Dr. George Diaz became the doctor who tended the first-known U.S. case at Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Wash.
April 9. 2021
A view from the front lines in the battle against Covid-19
Jeff Rhode, a staff photographer for a hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey, was given intimate and unique access to document the doctors, nurses, staff and patients as they battled the pandemic.