‘Digital divide’ hits rural Black Americans hardest
Los Angles/Washington DCThomson Reuters Foundation The lack of internet access in the United States is particularly pronounced in rural, southern areas with higher Black populations, researchers said this week amid a battle in Congress over how to close the digital divide. African Americans across rural counties in 10 mostly southern states were nearly twice as likely […]
As COVID-19 sweeps rural India, sick struggle to access healthcare
Chennai/Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Weakened by fever and gasping for breath, 47-year-old Vinod Kumar died in an ambulance more than 60 kilometres from his home in India’s eastern Bihar state, far from the big cities at the centre of the nation’s devastating COVID-19 crisis. His death last week followed a frantic journey and dozens of […]
Lifestory: India’s ‘Solar Man’ lights path out of poverty with clean power
MOUSHUMI BASU, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on Santipada Gon Chaudhuri’s mission to bring light to India’s rural poor…