Research on a police diversion program implemented in 2014 shows a striking 91% reduction in in-school arrests over less than 10 years.
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Many Jewish Americans—including the thousands who have been arrested protesting Israel’s war on Gaza—consider solidarity with Palestinians to be a moral imperative.
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Women are offered far fewer opportunities on screen as they age—especially if they’re Black.
A scholar of Palestinian history offers critical context for the now-controversial slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
To decolonize college campuses, BIPOC students, allies, alumni, and faculty are reintroducing Indigenous growing practices.
Black Americans have long expressed solidarity with Palestinian people, going back to Dr. King and the Black Panthers.
We live in an era where, in theory, we have accepted that all human beings are deserving of equal treatment—that skin color, national origin, language, accent, clothing, and other markers
After three weeks of Israel’s war, the devastation in Gaza has surpassed anything I have seen in 30 years as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon working in conflict. The sheer
Treatment programs rather than incarceration are far more effective for drug-related offenses.
Frontline communities from California to Puerto Rico lead the fight for energy democracy.
Trump is not the origin of America’s violent racial history, but he is its gleeful instigator.
Birth workers are helping Black parents navigate overlapping crises.
Black farmers are reasserting themselves in food cultivation and building on the practices of earlier generations.
After moving to several unfamiliar cities in the past year, author and scholar Norell Edwards asks: “What does allyship look like while protecting my own safety?”
In the decade since it began, #BlackLivesMatter has shifted the nation's collective consciousness, whether we wanted it shifted or not.
“The only way that we are going to get people to have a decent, equitable future is to completely re-envision this entire rubric that is suffocating and killing our people,” says lawyer Noelle Hanrahan.
A gun control organization run by women of color is putting white women on the frontlines of demanding a ban on guns.
“Deep canvassing” offers a model for how anti-racist Americans can practice what they preach and work to promote racial justice narratives.
People of color were the most harmed by the war on cannabis, but we can heal the damage of prohibition and ensure a fairer future.
An exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation.
Racial profiling is dehumanizing. Here’s what to do if you witness a person of color being targeted.
To mark Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we asked five AAPI creatives to share where they find themselves most at home—if they do at all.
How the popular and powerful music genre made education in the U.S. more accessible and fun.
When it came to Russia’s unjust detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner, misogynoir made an already difficult situation more dire, writes scholar Moya Bailey.
A task force calculated how much Black residents should receive for systemic, state-sanctioned discrimination and ongoing harm.
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