Summer 2015
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Make It Right
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After Baltimore: It鈥檚 Time to Make Things Right鈥�
From slavery to police brutality, reconciliation begins with the truth鈥�.
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His Ancestors Were Slave Traders and Hers Were Slaves. What They Learned About Healing from a Roadtrip
We embarked upon a journey to test whether two people 聴could come to grips with deep, traumatic, historic wounds and find healing. We had no idea where we would end up.
Sharon Leslie Morgan & Thomas Norman DeWolf
40 Acres and a Mule Would Be at Least $6.4 Trillion Today鈥擶hat the U.S. Really Owes Black America
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Jeff Neumann & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz
Meet the Woman Behind #BlackLivesMatter鈥擳he Hashtag That Still Fuels a Civil Rights Movement
Alicia Garza and two friends first tweeted #BlackLivesMatter to spark a conversation after the death of Trayvon Martin.
Liz Pleasant
A Rabbi’s Plea: We Need Slavery Reparations In Order to Move Forward
It鈥檚 clear that the trauma of slavery continues to impact the contemporary American psyche.
Shmuly Yanklowitz
150 Years Later, Two Universities Answer for Their Founder’s Role in the Sand Creek Massacre
Under pressure from students and community members, Northwestern University and University of Denver take the first steps towards righting historic wrongs.
Ned Blackhawk
The US Has Spent $14B on Community Policing鈥擶hat Have We Learned So Far?
Gauging whether a community policing program has been successful ultimately depends on how you define success.
Christopher Moraff
Can America Heal Its Racial Wounds? We Asked Desmond Tutu and His Daughter
South Africans surprised everyone by transitioning to a relatively peaceful post-apartheid society. Here鈥檚 what Americans can learn.
Sarah van Gelder & Fania Davis
The Indigenous Rituals That Heal Us
How the Medicine Wheel can guide us to transform communities that have suffered from racial injustice
Patricia St. Onge
Truth and Reconciliation at Work: How These Commissions Help Heal Wounds From Racial Injustice
Fania Davis explains how Truth and Reconciliation Commissions can help communities heal from a history of racial violence and oppression.
Fania Davis
Solutions We Love
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One Poem That Saved a Forest
How the friendship between a poet and a timber baron kept a grove of California redwoods from clear-cutting.
Jacqueline Suskin
Meet the Scientist Breeding More Resilient Bees (And 4 Other People Working to Save the Pollinators)
With honeybee populations on the decline, scientists, lawyers, and even artists have set out to save humanity's most important pollinators.
Miles Schneiderman
The Page That Counts
Less than 1 Percent of Sweden鈥檚 Garbage Ends Up at the Dump
How the country heats its homes, and another 23 facts about our world today.
Miles Schneiderman
Culture Shift
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Swapping Screen Time for Getting Dirty: Why Kids Need to Spend More Time Outside
In his book 鈥淗ow to Raise a Wild Child,鈥� Dr. Scott D. Sampson argues that the current disconnect between kids and the natural world is a threat to their physical, mental, and emotional health.
Shannon Hayes
What Native Hawaiian Culture Can Teach Us About Gender Identity
As the documentary Kumu Hina reveals, living between both genders is the more powerful 鈥渕ahu" way.
Jade Snow
Finding a House That Fits Is About More Than Just Size
Going from a suburban Versailles to a cabin in the woods was just what I needed to find home.
Norman Allen
5 Medicinal Herbs Already Growing in Your Backyard
These herbs aren't just for cooking鈥攈ere's how you can use them to treat ailments from asthma to anxiety.
Miles Schneiderman
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