The author of "Braiding Sweetgrass" on how human people are only one manifestation of intelligence in the living world.
Mother of nine, matriarch Ofelia Esparza learned how to make Día de los Muertos altars from her mother. Now, she’s passing on the craft to a new generation.
The annual Los Angeles Noche de Ofrenda in Grand Park—where Día de los Muertos blossomed into a national and international phenomenon— returns after a one-year hiatus.
After decades of dedicated work by Chicano artists in East L.A. to promote Día de los Muertos as a festival unique to their community, it is now a hyper-commercialized enterprise. Still, many are working to recenter the festival’s original intent of honoring the dead.
Today’s subminimum wages are a legacy of racist policies that date from the Civil War.
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we listen to what nature has to offer in the conversation around climate solutions.
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
The destruction of burial mounds in Detroit paralleled the displacement and genocide of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States.
After years of grassroots activism, the city has found success in addressing historical housing discrimination through community land trusts.
“Could it be that the fragmentation of our relations has been a fundamental cause of our exhaustion?”
Occupy Wall Street gave the left ideas, skills, and a base in a way no one could have imagined a decade ago. The radicalization of a generation, the ability to easily explain class, the potential for mass nonviolent direct action, and crowbarring politics to let in socialist ideas and elected officials are all invaluable legacies.
The Biden administration was supposed be different from its predecessor. So why are Haitians are being denied their due process in seeking asylum to the U.S.?
The COP26 meeting is an opportunity for world leaders to prove me wrong, to show us that they can act boldly on climate change and do more than make empty promises.
Minimum Viable Planet is a weeklyish newsletter about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad. This week, we look into sharing the climate crisis panic without having it backfire on you.
The climate activist doesn’t mince words in holding world leaders accountable to the urgent demands of young organizers.
We can’t talk about corruption and tax dodging around the world when we’re encouraging it at home.
“We all have a story to share, and I believe knowing someone’s story creates connection.”
A court seen as becoming increasingly politicized in ways unpopular to the majority of Americans risks decades of reputational damage.
A graphic edition of “On Tyranny” draws democracy lessons from the 20th century.
T-shirt entrepreneurs-turned-farmers are turning an abandoned elementary school into a community hub.
If done right, they should be prompting uncomfortable conversations, not self-congratulations.
Oriel María Siu’s new children’s book explodes the myth of Christopher Columbus as a celebrated explorer and re-centers Indigenous narratives of how the Americas were colonized.
The first Native-owned and Native-led land trust is working to empower and equip young Natives to successfully farm kelp.
Native Americans were put into a status of guardianship due to a system of federal and local policies developed in the early 1900s. A lawyer explains this sordid history in light of the recent case of pop star Brittney Spears' conservatorship.
Children with chronic medical conditions often suffer multiple blows to their mental well-being. A state program in California aims to provide appropriate treatment for these children and their families.
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