By Debra Utacia Krol, High Country News Dennis and Betty Smartt live in a neatly painted white-and-blue home on the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Reservation, on the Nevada-Oregon border. They’ve spent their entire lives here, in this small tribal community of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 16, 2017 CONTACT: Jenna McDavid National Managing Coordinator Diverse Elders Coalition jmcdavid@diverseelders.org || 646-653-5015 Christina DaCosta Director of Communications SAGE cdacosta@sageusa.org || 917-553-3328 The Diverse Elders...
by Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News. That bag of frozen cauliflower sitting inside your freezer likely sprang to life in a vast field north of Salinas, Calif. A crew of men and women here use a machine to drop seedlings into the black soil. Another group follows...
SAGE, the nation’s largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of LGBT elders, has officially renamed its Midtown senior center -- the first LGBT senior center in the country -- The Edie Windsor SAGE Center, in honor of its beloved hero. Friends...
By Julia Kassem, Detroit Journalism Cooperative Conversations around Detroit-area public transit in recent months have focused on new routes on Woodward, Gratiot and Michigan Avenue – as well as the Detroit Connector, a new service operating from Ann Arbor to Detroit...
On December 5, 2017, I, an African American lesbian elder, found myself on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. I had been asked to share my thoughts on the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case. I was happy that I’d...