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During major holidays in 2020, Americans traveled by the thousands to visit loved ones or just to get away. Although many took precautions, such as limiting indoor gatherings and wearing masks, epidemiologists cautioned that the holiday influx could lead to more COVID-19 cases—and undermine efforts to contain the virus.

Preserving African American visual art by providing a platform to make the Driskell Papers accessible.

Speakers of African American Language (AAL) are often made to doubt the value of the way they learned to speak and write. College of Education Assistant Professor Shenika Hankerson (below) works to help students gain respect for the unique structure and history the language while gaining fluency in writing in academic English, and to influence teachers not to impose dominant English varieties to the exclusion of AAL. (Illustration by iStock)