For Women Like Charleena Lyles, Trauma Has Trickled Down for Generations
How symptoms of mental illness manifest in Black women, and the steps you can take toward healing.
Social Justice
You Don’t Need a Sanctuary City to Help Your Immigrant Neighbors
In Greensboro, North Carolina, sanctuary policies are banned. But that hasn’t stopped residents and local police from supporting immigrants in their community.
Health Care Has Been Cut Before. Here’s What Happened
Yes, we’ve cut health care before. But the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and cuts to Medicaid would make history.
4 Myths About Slavery We Should Stop Believing Now
To understand the origins of wealth inequality and discrimination, we must look at the history of slavery.
Youth Sentenced to Life in Prison Get a Second Chance
A nationwide movement is seeking to end the practice of trying teenage criminals as adults and, instead, granting them a new start.
Wage Love to End Debt’s Stranglehold
Instead of using debt to punish communities of color and the poor, we should invest in everyone and defend our civic legacies for future generations.
When Hospitality Was the Norm and Multiculturalism Was a Good Thing
Despite border walls and travel bans, the Middle East is still a region where the weary traveler is welcomed and embraced.
Naomi Klein Pushes Us to Dream Big to Get Beyond Trump’s Shock Politics
The activist’s new book challenges the pessimism that sets in when we think radical change is politically impossible. But it misses something big.
White People, the Philando Castile Acquittal Should Make You Mad as Hell
You’ve been lied to.
5 Times Orange Is the New Black Gets It Right on Prisoner Rights
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
Judge’s Ruling on Standing Rock a Second Chance for Justice
The federal court decision could start a new chapter in the DAPL saga, beginning with dropping prosecution of water protectors.
How Photography Shapes Our View of Native Americans
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline.
We Will Soon Be Using More Than The Earth Can Provide
Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter.
Philadelphia’s Alternative to Gentrification Spreads Opportunity to All Corners
Stark boundaries—rich vs. poor, black and brown vs. white—begin to break down as people share parks, trails, libraries, nature centers, and other gathering places.
How to Go the Resistance Distance: Pop-Up Schools for Novice Activists
Modeled after the Civil Rights Era’s citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump Era.
Zoot Suits: A Fashion Movement that Sparked Mexican American Resistance
This June marks the 74th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, a series of weeklong race riots that swept Los Angeles in the summer of 1943. The spirit lives on today.
Robert Reich: Don’t Slow Down on Impeachment
The three previous presidential impeachment inquiries rested on less evidence of obstruction of justice than is already publicly known about Trump.
Why We Are Driven to Search for the Truth
It’s something we struggle to see more clearly, to realize day to day, to make more real in our lives. And that’s always messy business.
What Democracy Looks Like When You Have to Disagree With Your Neighbors
As much as I dislike and distrust our current national administration, I also deeply value community harmony.
As Climate Change Threatens Food Supplies, Seed Saving is an Ancient Act of Resilience
In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals keep their seeds in the library.
In One of the Nation’s Most Conservative Places, A Sanctuary City
Advocates in Santa Ana mobilize to educate, assist, protect, and inspire undocumented residents.
Blackfeet Researcher Leads Her Tribe Back to Traditional Foods
Forced assimilation destroyed most nations’ diets, but now Native youth are learning to integrate local foods back into their daily lives.
Stop Making Excuses for Hateful White Men
Why is mental illness the go-to line for white men who commit acts of terrorism against people of color?
Meet the People Whose Job Is Checking Facts
We’ve got enough political commentators. We need more fact checkers.
Enough! Trump Has Abdicated on Climate—Now It’s Up to Us
I’ll start with myself. And every time I give up something to reduce carbon emissions, I’ll smile and think of President Trump.
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