Iris Haq Lukolyo, 10, penned an essay about the experience that went viral (Heather Haq; iStock; Lily illustration) Julianne McShane
Feb. 23, 2021
One day last September, when 10-year-old Iris Haq Lukolyo logged on to Zoom school, her social studies teacher told the class that they would spend the day learning about the roles of the Founding Fathers in building America.
But Iris a fifth-grader at Glenn York Elementary School in Pearland, Tex. was puzzled: She didn’t know how her class could have a conversation about the origins of America without talking about the contributions of enslaved Black people, whose unpaid labor was integral to shaping the United States as a leading global economy.
Cromwell seventh-grader s words spark hope for Sen. Chris Murphy
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CROMWELL A local seventh-grader gas become a voice of “hope” for one Connecticut’s U.S. senators, and a source of pride for the town’s school district.
Cole Leavitt was a winner in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest sponsored by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy.
Cole’s essay was chosen from nearly 2,800 submissions statewide, school officials said. In all, 15 students from elementary, middle and high schools across the state were recognized for their essays in what is now the fifth year of Murphy’s annual essay contest. Three students were chosen from each of the state’s five congressional districts.
We’ve all seen people on social media wishing 2020 away and hoping for a better year in 2021. However, I think there have been many bright spots. As a whole, we have learned that we are more resilient than we knew, more generous with our time and attention, and way luckier to be alive than we sometimes realized.
I continued working even after the world shut down, photographing a different kind of daily life. I had the unique opportunity to watch firsthand what our little community looked like when it was a bit slower and quieter. Neighbors came together to wish a child happy birthday in a drive-by celebration, teachers tried to make their students feel like important rights of passage were still honored, and restaurants did their best to stay open and keep their employees at work. Things are different, of course, but while we miss large gatherings and seeing each other’s faces without masks, I have found that I am more grateful than ever that I get to live in the Roaring Fork Va
investigators presented noteworthy findings on an innovative gene therapy for sickle cell disease, CAR T-cell therapy in high-risk large B cell lymphoma, and research in stem cell transplantation.
In this in-between-isode of MedPage Today s Podcast series, Anamnesis, one of our reporters discusses some of these data.
Host: Hello, and thanks for joining us for the latest in-between-isode of Anamnesis.
ASH 2020 was a virtual event this year due to COVID-19, but
MedPage Today s reporter, Ian Ingram, followed all the major developments from the conference. Ingram: One notable study at this year s ASH meeting found that older, high-risk patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, or MDS, lived significantly longer when they underwent allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation.