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“I am Latina,” insists poet Rafaellla Daumas. “And I am not another curiosity to be stared at/ And I am not just another stereotype.”

“I am Latina,” insists poet Rafaellla Daumas. “And I am not another curiosity to be stared at/ And I am not just another stereotype.”

Anti-war activist Jan Barry sees in the Ukraine crisis both memories of older wars and a warning.

Esther Kamkar’s prayer for the dead addresses the vast universality of war’s human tragedy.

The flavorful grains that transformed the North American prairies during the 19th century into a continental breadbasket were varieties native to Ukraine’s Black Earth districts of Crimea and Galicia [now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine].