Clear goals, consistent strategy, and a sense of personal connection can change public opinion—and the law.
The genre offers a creative opportunity to tell Black stories, using fantasy and adventure to bring awareness to real-world injustice.
This organization offers a free toolkit for anyone wanting to host a family or community dinner.
The decline is happening across the country, and it’s about more than just contraceptives.
Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries pulls back the layers of a corrupt, barbaric system that devalues Black and Brown lives.
Visiting other countries connects me to experiences outside my own and shows me how Brownness is both window and mirror.
Teaching inclusivity and diversity to kids is important—but especially where LGBTQ role models are less visible.
As legislation has languished in Congress, many cities and states are moving forward with their own non-discrimination bills.
I think that we should all know by now that trying to do or alter our behavior in a way to appease Whites is useless.
We know from labor history that when workers want change, they shouldn’t just wait for company leadership to act.
A different kind of disability care is possible—and necessary.
Maybe not the one you think: When all you do is pitch to your base, it turns out no one else has much to gain by playing ball with you.
Around the world, the term is often synonymous with White people from affluent countries.
Some are using Birthright trips to draw attention to the Israeli occupation, its policy of oppression, and the call for a two-state solution.
May 24 is the second global “Fridays for Future” strike modeled after climate activist Greta Thunberg’s weekly demonstrations outside the Swedish parliament building.
My relationship to my ancestral home is complicated yet precious.
A Texas journalist’s investigation revealed the worst and best of America—including the Angry Tías from the community who are providing help.
Queens activists, unions, and political leaders worried about gentrification and opposed the $1.2 billion in tax breaks offered to the retail giant.
How can we break the silence about what happens when we’re dying?
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Radicalize your travel by being a better guest in someone else’s homeland.
Celebrating only “strong” women and nonbinary people doesn’t advance the cause of feminism or gender equality.
Yvonne Odom was one of thousands of students who quietly did the civil rights work at schools across the country.
We are dealing with the repercussions of separating children by race, now more than ever.
Reproductive rights advocates in the Southeast are working nonstop to help low-income women.
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