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Truth and Reckoning

Recognizing the generational harm caused by Native “boarding schools” is just the beginning. True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions tried to extinguish.
Abaki Beck    |   Sep 4, 2024
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The Truth Above All Else

In my faith tradition, there’s a well-worn adage that the truth will set us free. This idiom, expressed from the pulpits and at dinner tables, is an encouragement to uphold
Evette Dionne    |   Sep 4, 2024
A graphic illustration of bright red, yellow, black, and ochre yellow of round blobs and women's faces.
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Safer Sex Work

By embracing harm reduction principles, our culture can collectively empower and protect sex workers.
Justice Rivera    |   Sep 4, 2024
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Untangling the Roots of Wild Foods

For centuries, the gifts of nature have been thoughtfully nurtured according to seasonal rhythms, and foods now deemed “wild” have been cultivated with the same devotion as a cherished garden.
Valerie Segrest    |   Sep 4, 2024
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This Is Your Brain on Truth

The more we learn about people, cultures, and environments different from our own, the more empathy we have for the experiences of others—and the more our moral compasses veer toward
Sonali Kolhatkar    |   Sep 4, 2024
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Radical Readers

These bibliophiles teach kids to love reading—and themselves.
Erin Jones    |   Sep 4, 2024
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Queering Objectivity

LGBTQ journalists manage a mighty breadth of work. We are reporting in our local communities, tracking anti-queer and trans legislation across the United States, championing queer and trans youth, highlighting
Sara Youngblood Gregory    |   Sep 4, 2024
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False Prophets of Profit

The truth is Black people are overwhelmingly broke. In 2021, nearly 25% of Black families in the United States had either no wealth (what you own minus what you owe)
Erika Brown    |   Sep 4, 2024
Monumental Shifts Stonebreakers explores what it means to remove statues that honor historic—and ongoing—injustice in the U.S.
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Monumental Shifts

The demands of the racial justice uprisings of 2020 were never solely about policing. Stonebreakers (Awen Films, 2022), a documentary that chronicles the battles over historical memory that emerged during
James Tracy    |   Sep 4, 2024
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Contributors

Abaki Beck is a writer and public health Ph.D. student. Her work has been featured in Bitch, YES!, TalkPoverty, Health Affairs, and the books Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America (She
YES! Editors    |   Sep 4, 2024
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The Honor of Truth

YES! Media's interim executive director shares her reflections on why the truth still matters.
Khalilah Elliott    |   Sep 4, 2024

The Ease of Access

What if we lived in a world where access was not treated as an afterthought, but was embedded in every element of our society instead?
Evette Dionne    |   May 23, 2024
A photo collage by Michael Luong with photographs from the Stop Cop City protest in Atlanta. A color photo of Manuel Paez Terán, who was killed by police, is flanked by two black and white photos of other activists with their faces covered. One holds a sign that says “Stop Cop City.” The other holds a sign that says “Defend the forest everywhere. Stop Cop City.”

Protest and Serve

Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech.
Kamau Franklin    |   May 23, 2024
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