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Social Justice
An exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation.
Racial profiling is dehumanizing. Here’s what to do if you witness a person of color being targeted.
To mark Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we asked five AAPI creatives to share where they find themselves most at home—if they do at all.
The caucasity of television shows about the casual cruelty of excess is critically important. Succession didn’t shy away from that, and neither should other shows profiling the rich.
Strong family bonds help transgender people embrace joy even amid legislative attacks and reductive media portrayals.
How the popular and powerful music genre made education in the U.S. more accessible and fun.
When it came to Russia’s unjust detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner, misogynoir made an already difficult situation more dire, writes scholar Moya Bailey.
A task force calculated how much Black residents should receive for systemic, state-sanctioned discrimination and ongoing harm.
A campaign to free Black mothers from pretrial detention highlights the role that women play in helping one another navigate a dehumanizing system.
“Helping fellow Native people became the most powerful medicine the service league dispensed for healing a generation of wounded spirits.”
For South Asians, King Charles III’s coronation obscures a horror-filled history of mass atrocities, famines, and subjugation.
Native activists are using comedy to fight cultural invisibility and structural oppression.
As public spaces for women continue to diminish each day, some Afghan women have transformed a corner of their own homes into a battleground to resist the Taliban’s oppressive rule.
Native journalist Angela Sterritt highlights the strength and brilliance of Indigenous women as she investigates the cases of those who have gone missing or been murdered.
The project began with a number: 562. It was the number of federally recognized tribes in the United States when photographer Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) quit her job, packed
The late singer, actor, and activist leveraged his stardom in service of justice in the civil rights era and beyond.
April is Arab American Heritage Month, but do most non-Arabs in the U.S. truly understand just how much racial and religious diversity there is in this community?
Land stewardship can be a powerful tool in addressing intergenerational trauma, especially for Black women.
Haitian feminists are battling centuries of patriarchal norms in their fight for abortion rights using creative means including underground networks, political activism, and art.
Black Seminoles in the U.S. have long struggled against erasure and exclusion. Now, a recent reunion in Florida offers momentum for progress.
El Busesito (“the little bus”) is a preschool on wheels that delivers free early childhood and family engagement programs to Latino immigrant families in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley.
Drag bans like the one passed in Tennessee rely on fearmongering tropes about “protecting children” and “traditional values.”
In this obituary of the late civil rights activist and author Kevin Alexander Gray, YES! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar draws from years of interviews to showcase his analysis of social change.
Seattle’s South Lake Union may be home to Facebook, Google, and Amazon, but now, thanks to Native rights activists, it will once again be home to hand-carved canoes, too.
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