Skip to content
HeyJared

Melissa Hellmann

Reporter

Indexed articles, last 90 days
7
Latest publication
Aug 1, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
Top 1K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 9, 2026
The latest indexed work is over 30 days old. There may be a gap in what we hold.

Latest articles

  1. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Melissa Hellmann

    Why generations swear by hot caldo – ‘a Mexican Gatorade’ – in summer (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Across Latin American households in the US, the steaming broth nourishes while keeping family traditions alive When Patty Rodriguez hears the word caldo now, she thinks fondly of home. But as a child growing up in southern California, she despised eating the piping-hot soup-like meal during the summers. Rodriguez would swirl around the chunks of fish with her spoon and imagine that she was performing a magic trick where the dish disappeared. She would roll her eyes as she asked her family why th

  2. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Melissa Hellmann

    New York offers college admission for residents unenrolled from Howard University (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition payments New York residents who were unenrolled from Washington DC’s Howard University have been offered a reprieve after the historically Black institution withdrew more than 500 first-year students for missed tuition payments in late July. On 27 July, Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that affected New Yorkers can seek admission at the City University of New York (Cuny) and the State Univers

  3. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Melissa Hellmann

    The women running death salons for people of color to process grief: ‘It allows for freedom’ (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Death salons are spaces that allow free-flowing conversations about mortality and are becoming more popular around the country In a small cream-colored room at a cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nefertiti Moor sat at the head of a semicircle. Dressed in black with her long hair in locs, she delivered instructions for the evening discussion. “It’s not death counseling or a debate,” said Moor. She invited the two women in attendance to talk freely about their cultural associations wit

  4. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Melissa Hellmann

    ‘A first step to fascism’: critics denounce Trump administration replacing slavery exhibit at George Washington’s ​home (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Replacement of panels with version that’s sympathetic to enslavers comes amid effort by Trump to dismantle diversity initiatives Critics say the Trump administration acted under the “cover of darkness” to replace an exhibit exploring the lives of nine enslaved people who lived at George Washington’s ​Philadelphia home with a version that is overly sympathetic to enslavers and that whitewashes the country’s origins. The installation of new information panels followed a six-month fight

  5. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Melissa Hellmann

    ‘True Patriots’: a traveling play honors enslaved Africans’ role in the American revolution (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Da’ Gullah American Revolutionary Experience retells the revolutionary war from the perspective of the formerly enslaved A beam of white light illuminated actor Anita Singleton-Prather’s face. “War was on the way,” she said, addressing the audience. Portraying a formerly enslaved African in heaven, Singleton-Prather wore a white dress and held a large wooden staff. “Folks was asking us, what side we was going to fight: red or blue?” she said, referring to the Continental Army’s blu

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 1K sites

For The Guardian, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Melissa Hellmann