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Social Justice

Ending Domestic Violence Requires Working With Those Who Harm, Too

The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color’s Healing Together Campaign aims to end intimate partner violence by advocating for policy changes—and seeking healing for both survivors and the people who harm them.

Isabella Garcia | Oct 30, 2019

Reproductive rights | Women

What Do Women Really Want?

One million women and girls around the world offered answers. Now their responses are influencing reproductive health care policy.

Sonia Narang | Oct 29, 2019

Immigration

A Year After the Tree of Life Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Immigrant Racism Thrive

Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.

Ben Lorber, Tina Vasquez | Oct 26, 2019

How to Be an Antiracist: A Conversation With Ibram X. Kendi

In his new book, the professor challenges traditional definitions of racism, and who can be racist.

Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Oct 25, 2019

Health care | Native rights

A New Model for Health Care Respects Indigenous Agency

In Canada, Inuit and academic health care researchers have teamed up to combat poor cultural awareness in mainstream health care services.

Janet Jull | Oct 24, 2019

Mental health

Racial Microaggressions Are Real. Here’s How to Navigate Them

Experts weigh in on ways to deal with microaggressions that don’t burden Black, Indigenous, and people of color who experience them daily.

Ruth Terry | Oct 23, 2019

On Reparations, Let Impacted Communities Lead the Way

Reflecting on yesterday’s grassroots demands for restitution provides solutions for today.

David Ragland, Melinda Salazar, Tarell Kyles | Oct 17, 2019

It’s Time for Effective Oversight of Police Violence

Would the possibility of mandatory sentencing make a police officer think twice before pulling the trigger? What about them having to forego their pensions, or pay victims’ families from their 401Ks?

Zenobia Jeffries Warfield | Oct 15, 2019

Native rights | Indigenous lands

For Indigenous Peoples Day, Tribes Return to Alcatraz 50 Years Later

A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago.

Terri Hansen | Oct 14, 2019

Call for Submissions: The World We Want

Send us your leads and pitches by Nov. 5.

Oct 12, 2019

Native rights | Indigenous lands | Aging and dying

Making National Parks Accessible to Native People Again

A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?

Deborah Taffa | Oct 10, 2019

Racial Profiling and the Loss of Black Boyhood

At 13, I was into chess and Dungeons and Dragons. That was the year I hit my growth spurt—and learned what it is to be seen not as a child, but as a threat.

Hussain Abdulhaqq | Oct 9, 2019

Immigration | Reproductive rights | Gender justice | Women

LGBTQ Migrants Find Community at Mexico’s “House of Women”

After traveling thousands of miles fleeing violence and discrimination, LGBTQ women find safety and support in Tapachula, Mexico.

Alice Driver | Oct 3, 2019

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Activism | Pollution | Water | Climate

Why Detroit Could Be the Engine for the Green New Deal

The city exhibits all of the problems the framework is meant to heal.

Eleanore Catolico | Sep 19, 2019

Education | Mental health | Empathy

Rethinking “Muffins with Moms” and “Donuts with Dads”

While student–family events are well-intentioned, they can also exclude certain students. Teachers are pushing for activities that include all the important adults in a child’s life.

Tina Vasquez | Sep 12, 2019

Criminal justice reform | Activism

Making the Gun Violence Epidemic Visible Through Art and Activism

Two art projects explore the impact of gun violence, with a focus on mass shootings and police brutality.

Carla Bell | Sep 11, 2019

Mental health

In Chicago, Police Violence Survivors Heal Through Song

The Freedom Songbook workshop was designed to provide a creative safe space for survivors, and prevent isolation and other PTSD-related issues permeating Black communities.

Jonita Davis | Sep 7, 2019

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With Reparations, We Must Demand Repair—and Heal Ourselves

Part two of this six-part series explores the plurality of reparations that includes Black people’s spiritual and psychological healing.

David Ragland | Aug 31, 2019

How White Supremacy Intensifies Summer Heat

“Like racism, violence and white supremacy, heat is inextricable from the Black American experience.”

Ida Harris | Aug 30, 2019

White Supremacy and Artificial Intelligence

Developing technology that doesn’t perpetuate racism demands putting social values before profit.

Ruha Benjamin | Aug 29, 2019

Toni Morrison on the Necessity of Literature

Reading the celebrated author is a fitting way to mark the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship arriving on U.S. shores.

Valerie Schloredt | Aug 27, 2019

Activism | Cooperatives | Wealth and inequality

A People’s History of Board Games

If games are a reflection of our values as a society, and can influence how we think and act, can we game our way to a better world?

Brian Van Slyke | Aug 23, 2019

Native rights | Indigenous lands

Mauna Kea Protests Reveal Problems in Construction Processes on Native Lands

Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples need more authority in the federal and state project processes that affect them.

Christine Hitt | Aug 14, 2019

Masculinity

What an American Terrorist Looks Like

Despite racist and anti-immigrant scapegoating, data shows that most American terrorists are resentful White men inspired by White supremacist and misogynist rhetoric.

Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | Aug 14, 2019