From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, the worlds of fantasy in fiction and film are mostly White. This limitation is more influential than we may realize.
The Detroit Food Academy works with local educators, chefs, and business owners to teach young people entrepreneurial skills.
Intergenerational relationships are a critical ingredient in well-being, research shows, particularly as we age.
My true liberation as a Jewish person is bound up with the liberation of Palestinian people.
We need to value nature’s biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature is the best teacher.
On what basis do you exclude athletes because of who they are? Natural testosterone is a human condition.
Decades ago, the legendary journey of the open-ocean canoe Hokule‘a revealed secrets of Hawai‘i’s past and sparked pride in native culture. Now, a voyage around the world offers a new generation lessons about Earth’s uncertain future.
I had read stories of teachers being fired. I decided that was a risk I was willing to take for the opportunity to teach with my whole self.
More than 25 bills are now active, and dozens of groups are promoting the idea.
Through a voluntary land tax and donations from land owners, this organization is working to create an alternative land base for Indigenous people in California’s East Bay.
Saying what we believe may be the first step to social change.
As podcast listeners have grown more racially diverse, so have the shows.
While the wealthy and powerful are coddled with public largesse, the rest of us are thrown into the jaws of an unforgiving economic system.
Life after Trump will mean reckoning with our divisions. Can we?
While young people tend to vote for more progressive candidates, the policies they support are necessary for everyone’s survival.
Author Dani McClain wants us to stop pathologizing Black mothers’ experiences in this country.
What really lies beneath the anger and aggression of traditional White masculinity.
I caused a stir in India when I spoke out against rape culture, shaming, and silence. Thirty years later, I found the strength to do it all over again—this time to an international audience.
Late last fall, after some gusty wind blew most of the leaves from the bigleaf maples in my backyard, I went outside to inspect our garden. In the raised beds,
Soil, not money, is the source of wealth, and our economic system needs to reflect that.
The field celebrates a diverse universe of rising stars and celebrates hope with a new subgenre.
The perfect soil mixture can do more than grow food.
Annie Leonard and Tom Newmark on how they came to see soil as a solution to one of our biggest environmental problems—and as a tool to build more resilient communities.
A Bay Area market and cafe aims to build wealth for local food entrepreneurs and local community.
An Indigenous journalist reflects on the 800-year-old cathedral and what “sacred” means to her.
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