With strong, rich roots in the U.S., Black people are part of this country’s immigration narrative.
While Indigenous and other people of color traditionally lack the power to enact racism, we can and do exercise clear racial prejudice against Black people.
Our healthcare and food systems depend on immigrant workers, including those who are undocumented. Greater protections for them would be good for everyone.
Despite being an avid proponent of slavery, the historical figure has been quite prominent in American society—and not just in the South.
The difficulty for people experiencing homelessness to regain their security puts a new focus on helping them before they lose their homes.
This model shows just how effective they are.
Cultivating algae empowers coastal communities while storing CO2 deep underwater.
A growing number of political exiles from Nicaragua are putting their experience and activism to work in their adopted country.
It’s all about the incentives and weighing risks: Staying home has to be more attractive than going out.
“Minimum Viable Planet” is a weeklyish commentary about climateish stuff, and how to keep it together in a world gone mad.
Many other things need to change before LGBTQ+ people can thrive in our workplaces, especially those of us who are Black.
Truth commissions and reparations programs can effectively involve all perspectives in a conflict about longstanding political and economic grievances.
To claim the flag represents Southern pride is an egregious whitewashing of history.
The idea of collective ownership has a long history in the United States.
Domestic violence, the leading cause of homelessness among women and children, is increasing during the pandemic.
Throughout history, immigrants have borne the brunt not just of a pandemic, but the U.S. government’s disproportionate and cruel response to it.
Racism is a chronic, uncontrollable, and unpredictable stress that can wreak havoc on the mind and body.
A coordinated, science-driven, national-level strategy is vital to an effective response.
Voting rights have always been inconsistently applied. Now the coronavirus pandemic is threatening those rights even more, and activists are pushing back.
Climate experts share a range of ideas and strategies for envisioning a better future.
The decision by the high court comes in the midst of a global pandemic and an uprising in the wake of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police that lays bare the extend of racial injustice in this country.
When the Rev. Al Sharpton implored White America to “get your knee off our necks” at the memorial of George Floyd, his words were carried by news outlets across the globe.
Freedom on the Move is a database collecting these ads, which help form a more complete picture of slavery and the enslaved.
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