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These activists are working to ensure Indigenous perspectives are included in fields as diverse as education, health care, and scientific research.
Social Justice
From The Current Issue
Resmaa Menakem intersperses political commentary and predictions about American democracy with explanations of how racialized trauma presents in our bodies, and offers body-focused exercises to deal with it.
Centering schools around the well-being of our students (and their teachers) is the most straightforward path to positive change in the workplace.
People of color are pigeonholed almost exclusively into constrained narratives of trauma and rejection, our anguish commodified for consumption. It’s time to change this.
Indigenous values helped shape American democracy, and now they’re helping increase Native representation.
Listening to survivors share their stories of horror does not absolve the Catholic Church of wrongdoings or release it from further accountability.
It is high time for the U.S. to do some serious soul-searching. Communion and fellowship are what will get us through.
Nichols’ career arc shows how diverse casting on the screen can have a profound impact in the real world, too.
A Black queer lawmaker posted a video on social media of herself twerking in a bikini. In response to the maelstrom of criticism, she’s reclaiming her bodily autonomy and pushing back with a new campaign.
The Supreme Court’s decision validates a half-century-old strategy by Christian nationalists to remake the very fabric of this nation.
The generation’s organizing experience, voter turnout, and spending power make them a powerful force for change.
The sport has roots in ancient Egypt and evolved into an exclusive pastime of White upper-class men. But Brannon Johnson, the founder of the only Black-owned rowing club in the nation, is trying to change that.
From Amazon to Starbucks, employees are demanding better pay and working conditions from companies that have long had a free hand to maximize profits at any cost.
In the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, protests remind the Left how political change happens.
Educators Rising is a national program that gets students onto an educational career path while they’re still in high school.
The recent scarcity of menstrual products is exacerbating period poverty in the U.S.
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Rubynell Walker-Barbee shares her story of service workers organizing in Georgia.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, advocates and politicians are calling on states and congress to codify Roe. But what does this actually mean for abortion rights?
The overturning of Roe v. Wade is part of a long legacy of American Christian values being forced on Indigenous communities.
Knowing this day would come doesn’t make the reality any easier to process. But as trite as this may sound so soon after such a devastating loss, the fight is far from over.
The politics of abortion revolve around White supremacy and the role it plays in trying to manage the reproduction of different racialized populations. We need to unite in order to fight back.
Scholars offer five takeaways to begin understanding the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision revoking the constitutional right to safe, legal abortion in the U.S.
In order to achieve full reparations, we need to reconstruct media systems built on violence, specifically anti-Black violence.
In order to fully realize the promise of Juneteenth, historian Yohuru Williams says we need to move beyond symbolism to doing the hard work of addressing structural racism.
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