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The Southwest Stories Initiative
The Southwest Stories initiative
The Southwest Stories initiative:Read their articles below, and visit The Journal of the Plague Year to learn more about—and perhaps contribute your story—to this online archive about what how people around the U.S. and the world are experiencing life under the pandemic.
- is a partnership between the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and The Journal of the Plague Year (hosted by the School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies)
- employs students and journalists who lost their employment due to the pandemic in documenting and preserving stories about life under the pandemic for vulnerable individuals and communities who have, in many ways, been most impacted by the virus
Browse full Southwest Stories archive
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Native American communities:
‘Keeping the culture alive’: Native dance goes digital during pandemic
Many Navajos face pandemic without running water, tribal members urged to ‘lift each other up’Migrants and I.C.E. detainees:
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Incarcerated persons:
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‘They’re scared’: A look inside the COVID-19 crisis 
Surge of coronavirus cases among inmatesAgricultural workers:
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As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over…lives’
Arizona dairy farms pivot from restaurants to food banks as COVID-19 shifts demand