To fill the growing vacuum of history education in the U.S., racial justice organizers are offering truth-based curricula.

When Renee Lau, a special projects coordinator at the trans-led housing and wellness center Baltimore Safe Haven, transitioned at the age of 63, she lost everything. “My marriage fell apart,” she says ...

In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum ...

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Abortion rights aren’t enough. The best reproductive care outcomes result from meeting basic needs.

Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Marroquin—who grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s—worried that speaking ...

Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide.

High-profile, disruptive protests can lead to increased polarization—but often still yield increased public support for the protest’s goals, even if the tactics are criticized.

Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020. The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social ...

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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank fighting for the right to a homeland, and for their basic right to water—which Israel continues to deny.

Propelled by a discerning non-verbal child, a craft gets elevated to an act of devotion.