As trusted community figures, doulas are increasingly helping their clients stay safe during heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires, all of which put pregnant people at higher risk.
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Post-9/11 Islamophobia has triggered a mental health crisis among Muslims. Now, the shift toward seeking mental health care is happening at Islamic centers and mosques.
Tired of waiting for the city to address housing justice, Baltimore’s constellation of grassroots activists and institutions are charging forward to keep residents in their homes and increase availability of affordable housing.
The Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas is suing to protect the tribe’s ancestral land.
L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.
Seemingly miraculous varieties that can withstand drought, flood, and saltwater intrusion are the result of centuries of selective breeding by ancient farmers.
When people forced to flee their homes then arrive in new countries, their efforts to continue with higher education and careers are often stymied.
From the Los Angeles Tenants Union to Downtown Crenshaw, communities of color in L.A. are rewriting the rules of housing rights.
People misuse morality to demonize one another’s choices and actions, letting policymakers and corporations off the hook.
Historically, Indigenous and Black folks have been turned against each other by colonizers and enslavers. Now, communities are learning from one another and finding solidarity in efforts to reclaim stolen lands.
Organizers are tackling climate displacement from all angles—advocating for climate-displaced people, providing them with resources, and making their communities more climate-resilient.
Colonization, through genocide, land theft, and the imposition of private property, has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations.
Their success is changing the perception of Aboriginal communities from “fish thieves” to leaders in regional development.
Native study of the natural world is exceptionally deep and nuanced at understanding and protecting ecosystems.
Name-calling in politics grabs headlines, but voters don’t like it—and it could backfire in the 2022 midterm elections.
Cities across the U.S. are looking to citizen science for data on heat waves and other climate impacts.
Native farmers want newcomers to know there’s nothing novel about caring for the land that grows our food.
The public banking movement is creating an opening wedge for the transfer of our financial system from private to public control.
Survivors of one of the worst storms in Puerto Rico's history share their stories and how they resorted to mutual aid in the face of government neglect and incompetence.
Texas’ new anti-abortion law has just gone into effect after the Supreme Court refused to step in. Here’s what it means.
The Taliban "has not changed," say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its rule.
When schools achieve environmental justice, the whole climate benefits.
Amid a pandemic biking boom, cycling education organizations are working to make sure access is equitable and inclusive.
Private equity firms snatched up rental properties, then neglected them. So Minneapolis activists organized the tenants to fight for their rights.
Bills have been introduced in several states that saw the pandemic recession as a clarion call for keeping their money at home.
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