If you watch the news, you'd think anti-Muslim hysteria is everywhere. Thankfully, that's not true.
Graduates of an “Inside-Out” program in Oregon say that the experience transformed the way they see the prison system—and themselves.
Should we treat robots sort of like animals, or strictly as tools? Researcher Kate Darling says the time has come to take these questions seriously.
"This is not a film about oppression," said Food Chains executive producer Eva Longoria. "It's actually about transformation."
More than 60 counties, cities, and states—and some corporations—are reducing discrimination against former offenders by removing one small box from job applications.
Artists from Seattle's hip hop scene—including Macklemore and Ryan Lewis—speak about music's healing power.
Members of the Rochester-based group Da Cloth have sent the tape to more than 150 inmates.
Much of the momentum in the movement to reform the use of solitary confinement in the United States comes from the work of prisoners themselves.
"Violence is not simply shooting people. Violence is also poverty. It's also incarceration—putting people in prison is incredibly violent."
Students in Columbia's Native American Council think the University could do more to acknowledge indigenous history, and they're helping to make it happen.
Are we starting to see a cultural shift in how our society thinks about rape? The huge online response to a Slate columnist who told women to avoid rape by not drinking suggests that it's starting to happen.
With a string of powerful similes, poet Dylan Garity lets us know what life is like for Boston students who are trying to learn English.