Female faculty members of color are disproportionately called upon by both colleagues and students to do diversity, equity, and inclusion work—with no compensation for this labor.
This unregulated technology has served to enhance discriminatory practices by law enforcement and further endanger the lives of communities of color.
“When we started our farm-to-hospital concept, we never could have anticipated a global pandemic, but the pandemic provided proof of concept.”
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, how to talk to kids about climate change.
Indigenous and Aboriginal women on Bainbridge Island had to hide their identity. Now, their adult children embrace it.
Studies show that investments in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety.
The clues for December’s puzzle focus on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, signed this month in 1948.
The likely outcome of the Dobbs decision will have far-reaching effects on women’s health, both physiological and financial.
Which social justice movements and organizations do you see helping to build a better world right now? How have they inspired you or transformed how you think or act?
Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States’ arid Southwest?
To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it.
President Biden has already committed to addressing systemic racism. Here’s a good place to start.
After years of relying on fresh produce from a local urban farm, Baltimore’s Cherry Hill neighborhood is rallying together to save their farm from the city’s eviction notice.
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions—but what do they mean in practice?
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we contemplate anger, heart, and action.
Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter explains how the 3 core tenets of the Black Xmas campaign are building Black, buying Black, and banking Black.
As a collective, how do we say goodbye to the structures and traditions that no longer serve, protect, and preserve us?
Learning from other languages and cultures of gratitude, perhaps Americans can make “thank you” less casual and more heartfelt.
2021 was the deadliest year on record for trans people, just like the year before. Reversing that trend requires trans solidarity built upon mutual aid.
The innovative ways Native peoples organized to survive the pandemic—and beyond.
Many in this generation are aware of what they have lost by having grown up on social media, so they’re logging off and working to create a safer, healthier future.
“For 16 disquieting days, Sassia and I felt like we were chasing liberty—but whose, was the daily question. It never seemed like it was ours, or that of others obstructed from the American Dream. Not the Nez Perce’s, for sure.”
Unchecked inflation can be damaging, but what we’re seeing in the U.S. is a fundamentally different issue: one in which inflation is being politicized.
In North Carolina, progressive activists reach out to rural voters as an overlooked segment of the electorate.
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we talk about women, art, climate, and guinea pigs.
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