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Amber Hall

In third grade Amber Hall anchored the nightly news from behind a makeshift desk in her parents’ bedroom. Yes, she was the star talent, but also the producer, editor, prop master, grip and cameraperson. And that’s when Amber realized she wanted to be a producer!After majoring in theater at SUNY New Paltz, Amber landed at public televisions’ In The Life, an LGBT newsmagazine. She was awarded the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, Excellence in HIV/AIDS Coverage for a segment she produced about HIV laws. Then Amber found her calling in radio.As the executive producer and co-creator of SiriusXM’s progressive morning staple, The Agenda, Amber took the show on the campaign trail and blazed the dial for progressive politics on satellite radio.Amber Hall is the planning editor for The Takeaway. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and two cats.
March for Life
Lifestyle
He argues for rolling back abortion rights in the US
rally
Health
In the 45 years since Roe v. Wade, states have passed 1,193 abortion restrictions
LGBTQ military servicemember
Conflict
Queer service member: Trump’s trans ban ‘is about fear and loathing of transgender Americans’
Kela
Economics
Finland’s guaranteed basic income is working to tackle poverty
Automation
Jobs
Meet LoweBot, a customer-service robot here to give you ‘superpowers’
Buffalo schools
Culture
How Buffalo’s public schools are setting international students up for success
Mushrooms
Arts
What nature can teach us about sustainability and innovation
Venezuela
Conflict
Venezuela’s military has turned its food crisis into a ‘racket.’ And it’s profiting from people going hungry.
Father Michael Pfleger marches through the streets of a South Side neighborhood during a weekly night-time peace demonstration in Chicago, Illinois, September 16, 2016.
Conflict
Families in Chicago are tired of gun violence. Will 2017 be different for them?
Trump
Conflict
What it’s like to be a Muslim in Trump’s America
A sample ballot
Global Politics
Guam’s voters tend to predict the presidency — but they have no say in the Electoral College
Defense Secretary Ash Carter, left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford
Culture
Retired colonel says US political leaders abuse public trust in the military to wage war
The inside of a private prison transport van.
Conflict
Investigation reveals injustices in private prisoner transport industry
A memorial outside the Stonwall Inn.
Conflict
From Stonewall, love toward Orlando
Erica Lachowitz, left, and Austin J. Fonville
Global Politics
What everyday life is like for transgender people living in North Carolina
Dimoriaku on stage at a microphone
Education
Becoming a storyteller helped this teen from the Bronx become herself
Demonstrators hold signs asking the Supreme Court to allow DAPA to move forward
Justice
Supreme Court hears immigration case — and starts with tough questions for lawyers
Manzanar
Arts
Freedom From Fear: An art project captures a struggle immortalized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Everyday Sexism
Justice
How the #EverydaySexism project empowers women
Brooklyn Bridge
Development
If the US wants to fix its infrastructure problem, it’ll have to cut through the red tape
About 56 percent of Republicans now believe that climate change is real and at least in part connected to human behavior.
Global Politics
The ‘green Tea Party’ is a conservative group that embraces clean energy
Model Alexandra Kutas.
Arts
Meet a Ukrainian model blazing a new path for people with disabilities — on the runway
An apple iPod
Technology
Apple is said to be considering upending the headphone market — by changing the ubiquitous jack
West Wing cast
Global Politics
What The West Wing can tell us about President Obama’s final State of the Union
Karla Hernandez-Mats
Education
Teaching a global nation: Supporting immigrant students in a place where they are not the minority
Boston students
Education
Teaching a global nation: US classrooms are becoming an unlikely immigration battleground
Students cheer as US President Barack Obama (not pictured) attends the 2014 commencement ceremony for the University of California, Irvine, while at Angels Stadium in Anaheim, California.
Education
University of Washington president says diversity is one of the keys to success
Dr. Annelys Hernandez checks out Cynthia Louis at a Mobile Health Center at Florida International Univeristy on March 3, 2015. Louis is ineligible for health insurance because of Florida's decision to reject Medicaid expansion under Obamacare.
Health
‘The waiting is tearing me down’ — low-income Americans struggle in anti-Obamacare states
Several dozen Vietnamese demonstrators protest against what they described as human rights violations in the former South Vietnam on April 30, 1998 at city hall in Orlando, Florida.
Conflict
Forty years after Vietnam, a refugee relives his journey from Saigon to San Francisco
Attendees line up to meet musician Ted Nugent at a book signing event during the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Houston, Texas, on May 5, 2013.
Global Politics
Gun owners face much higher murder risks, researchers said. Then the NRA silenced them.
Paris, Tennessee, is home to the self-described biggest fish fry in the world — and a high risk of health problems.
Health
Why sit in pews when you can walk and worship? Rural churches preach better health.
Pro-net neutrality Internet activists rally in the Los Angeles neighborhood where President Barack Obama attended a fundraiser on July 23, 2014.
Technology
The FCC prepares for its historic net neutrality vote