Last month, the United States Supreme Court announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died on September 18, 2020. She had died from complications of pancreatic cancer at age 87. Her legacy not only includes 27 years as a Supreme Court Justice but a lifetime of work systematically challenging laws that discriminated between men and […]
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Written by: Jabin Lewis The Marshallese leaders and pastors of Springdale, Arkansas gathered together at the Marshallese Pastors Conference held on September 29 at The Apollo on Emma. The event also included the FBI, the Springdale Police Chief, the Marshallese detective, and the hostess, State Representative Robin Lundstrum. While they were served their dinner, they
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I waited a very long time to meet the right person to get married. When my husband proposed to me last summer, he was eager to get married. We thought that last fall would have been too soon. If only we had known that nothing was going to be normal this year. He wanted to
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Iakwe, Eta in Selina Neirok Leem. Jet iaan aelon ko ij itok jen ie ej Namdrik, Ailuk, Mili, Ebon, im Utrik. Ikar lotak ilo November 12, 1997. Ijo ikar lotak im dik im ruttolok ie ej Majuro mokta jen ao kar emakut ilo iio eo 2014 nan kabilon ko nan jikuul. Etan jowi eo ao
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At the beginning of the year, the Marshall Islands had limited travel within the country because of an outbreak of dengue fever. They then extended the restrictions for international travel when the novel coronavirus broke out. The RMI government banned travel from China several weeks prior to the March 3, 2020 restrictions on international travel.
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Olivia Paschal, a journalist in Northwest Arkansas, has been reporting on poultry processing workers. Read the complete article first published by Facing South on August 20, 2020 and translated and republished with permission. This is Part 2 of 4. Part 1 available here. When factory workers began to become sick from COVID-19, poultry companies took
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In June there were 500-600 active cases and 33 deaths in the Marshallese community in Northwest Arkansas. There were 9 deaths in July. They made up the majority of Benton and Washington county’s COVID cases. The good news — there has not be a COVID-related death in the NWA Marshallese community since August 2. The
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Written by Jabin Lewis Before all the chaos of the year 2020, the Marshallese Tennis Club of Springdale, Arkansas enjoyed spending their days training for sporting events and simply being in each other’s company. The Marshallese Tennis Club began in the year 2019 with less than twenty members. They have recently reached as many as
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On Wednesday, August 26, Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese in Springdale held their opening ceremony for the Enrã food pantry. Due to Covid-19, there was a limited number of guests, with fifty in total that were present while practicing social distancing. At two o’clock that afternoon, the guests had gathered and began with an opening prayer
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Ukok jān Patrick Boaz. See here for English version. Olivia Paschal, juon rijeje nuuj ilo Northwest Akansas ej kwaļok kōn rijerbal ro ilo im̧ōn kōm̧m̧an bao ko. Riiti likio in bwebwenato eo moktata im ear diwōj ļo̧k jān Facing South ilo Okōj 20, 2020 im ear ukook bar diwōj ļo̧k kōn mālim eo aer. Enin
