Gardening here is not a hobby. It comes from the realization within people that there is inherent value in tending a garden and taking time to be a part of nature.
Oil companies like to push the narrative that Alaskans want more oil development, but that’s not true.
Insufficient support and stigma make Black women the least likely to breastfeed of any group.
As a constitutional lawyer, I fully support the First Amendment. But as a black person, I’m conflicted when it comes to defending hate.
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona’s justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
Perhaps the most compelling reason to change our ways is that Earth needs our help. In our responsibility to respond, might we unite in common cause?
Community groups throughout the city say land trusts could keep families living affordably in a fast-gentrifying city.
Now is the time to push for better health care. Here are three modest, winnable first steps.
Forget minding your own business. Getting engaged leads to great rewards for both ourselves and others.
A few months after temporarily shutting down 13 Chase branches, Seattle climate activists were at it again with a tar sands petition.
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safest living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.
Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
For the new movement to gain national traction, it will need to draw in poor and working-class Whites.
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
A few law enforcement agencies have adopted new guidelines to treat trans and gender-nonconforming people more fairly. But it’s just the first step.
White supremacy is not an unfortunate stain on an otherwise clean democracy. It’s terribly, terrifyingly normal.
Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity—and crumbled.
We’ve been living alongside the Confederacy too long, and white people are finally starting to notice.
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
The construction of the Puget Sound Energy facility is already underway in Washington state, and it has locals worried about the health and safety of their community.
Programs provide easier access to fresh, healthful foods to low-income neighbors.
10 ways to get your mind off this White House.
United fronts aren’t about unity. They’re about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we’re going to act in solidarity against what’s trying to kill us.
Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the “Unite the Right” protests.
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