Andrea Crossan
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United Kingdom
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Many women come out of prison with almost nothing. This woman helps them through the first 72 hours.
Around 85 percent of women in a British Columbia prison come out homeless. "There are very few places for women to go when they get released," says one advocate. → Read More
Can First Nations Court stop Indigenous women from ending up in prison?
"People really had compassion, affection, understanding and patience — something that you don't get in regular court." That's how one Indigenous woman describes her day in First Nations Court. → Read More
She was arrested for carrying a suitcase lined with cocaine into Canada. Her court case changed the law.
Cheyenne Sharma admitted transporting more than 4 pounds of cocaine into Canada. But her lawyers put the country's colonial history on trial. → Read More
A Ugandan in Canada learns to skate
When Ugandan rapper Keko moved to Canada, she became a hockey fan. But she was less excited about learning how to skate. → Read More
Are factories better in Bangladesh after Rana Plaza? That depends on who you ask.
The Rana Plaza collapse made companies and consumers more aware of working conditions in the clothing factories. In some places, reforms have made workers safer, but the changes are far from universal. → Read More
How a sweatshop raid in an LA suburb changed the American garment industry
In the early hours of Aug. 2, 1995, authorities raided an apartment complex in El Monte and found 72 Thai workers, including Rotchana Sussman, living in virtual slavery while making clothing. → Read More
We asked Puerto Ricans about their future plans. Many want to stay and rebuild.
A number of people we talked to say they want to help rebuild. → Read More
It wasn’t easy, but we hand-delivered a letter to a grandmother in Puerto Rico
"Jenny? Hello? Hello?" — a grandmother speaks to her family on the US mainland after weeks of being unable to contact them after Hurricane Maria. → Read More
One Boston family's wish to get a letter to their grandmother in Puerto Rico
After Hurricane Maria, one family in Boston has been unable to speak to relatives in Puerto Rico. So, they asked us to bring a letter with us and deliver it. → Read More
South African artist Lady Skollie explains why she paints burning vaginas
“It’s got a burning vagina in the middle and there are all men — so it’s like they are warming themselves around a burning vagina. Which, to me, is pretty much South Africa.” → Read More
Ugandan rapper Keko gets real about her music, her sobriety and her sexuality
Meet the Queen of African Rap — Keko. And she has quite the story to tell. → Read More
These capybaras escaped the zoo for a summer of love. Now they're back, with babies.
Last summer, a pair of capybaras escaped from Toronto's High Park Zoo. The "High Park Two" are now five. Meet the "capy-babies." → Read More
He won a trip to space, but can’t move freely on Earth
A poem about mental health won him a seat on a commercial spacecraft. So British Muslim Hussain Manawer is set to go to space in 2018. But here on Earth, he's regularly stopped and questioned at airports. → Read More
How a Saudi-born singer found her voice and her freedom in Pakistan
Born in Saudi Arabia, Rutaba Yaqub went to Pakistan to study engineering. While she was there she discovered a love for singing — and she's found that conservative Pakistan is the place that givers her the freedom to really develop her music. → Read More
A US sperm bank is getting sued for presenting a mentally ill felon as a healthy donor
His sperm is believed to have been used to conceive at least 36 children in Canada, the US and Britain. Now three Canadian families are suing. → Read More
Lindy Hopping down memory lane in Rio
Twenty years ago, videographer Anne Bailey traveled to Sweden to become a Lindy Hop star. She didn't make it — but recently she got to get her hop on with Rio's Lindy Hoppers. → Read More
Loosened US pot laws have sent Mexican weed prices plunging
Some farmers are getting out of the marijuana business. Have free-market economics done what decades of a war on drugs could not? → Read More
Teaching American actors how to do African accents
Will Smith struggled with a Nigerian accent in his new film "Concussion" — but he's not the only actor who has found it challenging to master an accent. → Read More
A new domestic abuse law in Britain targets controlling behavior
He's put spyware on your phone? She's taken your bank card from you? In Britain, this kind of controlling or coercive behavior could lead to a prison sentence. → Read More
Finally, Japan delivers definitive apology to South Korea for 'Comfort Women'
They've been called comfort women by some — and sex slaves by others. Now the Japanese government has officially apologized to the South Korean women forced into brothels during World War II. → Read More