Black Pride Gives Queer People of Color a Place to Honor Their Identity
LGBTQ celebrations all over the U.S. recognize the interests of those who haven鈥檛 found a place within the mainstream community.
Social Justice
To Build These Homes, We Chose an All-Women Crew
The Mudgirls collective redefines expectations about what a construction site is supposed to look like鈥攃hild care, breastfeeding breaks, and all.
How to Help Inmates Heal After the Trauma of Prison
New York鈥檚 Thrive provides a model to the rest of the U.S. for supporting incarcerated men and helping them find stable housing, education, and employment after they鈥檙e released.
Compassionate Mental Health Reform Began With Taking Off the Handcuffs
Rural Virginia in particular has implemented policies that try to treat people with more dignity.
A Mohawk Midwife鈥檚 Birth Stories
鈥淭he stories of how we鈥檙e born are so important and give so much guidance to a child鈥檚 life.鈥�
A Community of Slave Descendants Is Protecting Unique Food Traditions from Rising Seas
One chef is raising the profile of Gullah/Geechee cuisine to help maintain the Nation鈥檚 cultural identity.
Racial Justice | Cooperatives | Local economies | Affordable housing | Local power | Citizens United
鈥淭he Price on Everything Is Love鈥�: How a Detroit Community Overcomes a Lack of City Services
A range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts address basic needs, from health care to food access, that are going unmet by local government agencies.
Families of Interned Japanese Americans See Parallels to Detentions at Border
Debates over confining migrant parents and children stir activism in a new generation of Japanese Americans.
Women鈥檚 Rights Are Center Stage in One Kentucky Community
A local theater group tackles stigma and prompts conversations in a state where abortion is steadily under attack.
Resisting the Power Structures That Keep Colonialism Alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past.
Why Does White Fragility Show Up at Workplace Diversity Trainings?
One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense.
To Combat Gentrification, One City Is Changing How Homes Are Bought and Sold
The city of Buffalo is supporting its first community land trust, designed to give neighbors control over land use and to keep housing affordable.
You Want to Know Who America Is, Pay Attention to Who She Was
We鈥檝e been here before.
How Roe v. Wade Changed Motherhood and Marriage
Two generations later, more women are postponing marriage, graduating college, and entering the paid labor force.
Kennedy Resignation Sparks New Urgency for First-Time Women Candidates of Color
If elected to Congress, they would counter conservative decisions from the court with progressive lawmaking.
What Came Before #MeToo: The Himpathy That Shaped Misogyny
Kate Manne鈥檚 鈥淒own Girl鈥� describes the origins of a punitive social system that keeps women in their place by rewarding compliance and punishing resistance.
How Residents of South LA Are Tackling Environmental Racism
In the polluted Watts neighborhood, residents鈥� average lifespan is 12 years less than people from affluent areas.
Caravan of Grandmothers Heads to Mexico Border
The group leaving from New York will onboard other 鈥済rannies鈥� and allies along the way to support migrating families.
This Boot Camp Trains Young People to Fight Plastic Pollution
Youth activists ages 11 to 18 return home to educate their communities about how to curb the crisis.
How Issues in the South Affect the Entire Nation
The South is a proven testing ground for regressive policies and practices that often make their way to the rest of the U.S.
5 Reasons Salmon Are an Environmental Justice Solution
We need wild salmon鈥攁nd not just because they鈥檙e tasty. They are an indicator of ecosystem health.
Memorial for Lynching Victims a First Step Toward Reconciliation
It offers a place of reckoning for generations of racial trauma.
Thomas Paine鈥檚 Truth-to-Power Message in 1776
Paine鈥檚 writing was as uncompromising as a modern blog with the edgy wit and precision of a Twitter thread.
Immigrant Farmers Revive Dormant Greenhouse to Grow Food From Home
At a small farmers market south of Seattle, you鈥檒l find varieties of ethnic vegetables unlikely sold in your typical supermarket.
New York鈥檚 Suicide Prevention Program Is the First of Its Kind in the U.S.
Suicide rates have been rising overall, but the results from this Swiss study were promising: Suicidal behavior dropped by 80 percent.
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