The Importance of Training Teachers to Better Understand Their Native Students
Native students have the highest dropout rates, but a college program for educators aims to change that.
Democracy
鈥淐arpe Diem Politics鈥�: How to Do More Than Just Resist
Today鈥檚 social justice movements must seize opportunities, mobilize quickly, and, finally, embrace a carnival spirit.
Can You Celebrate American History Without Celebrating Colonialism?
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the move to decolonize the annual Entrada celebration shows how complex identity and culture are.
Racist Voter Suppression Revealed in a Small-Town Voter Fraud Trial
As the nation faces demographic shifts, the push to suppress voting intensifies.
How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste鈥攁nd Hunger
Each weeknight, The Free Store redistributes up to 1,500 surplus food items to anyone who wants them鈥攏o questions asked.
Comic: We Sent Our Illustrator to Activist Summer Camp. Here鈥檚 What Happened
Meet Jen, who went to sleep-away camp a newbie activist and came back ready to fight for social change.
How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis
Here are 13 of the best ideas for a just and sustainable food system, from saving seeds to curbing food waste.
The Volunteers Protecting Kentucky鈥檚 Last Abortion Clinic
The walk from the parking lot, past protesters, to the embattled clinic鈥檚 front doors can be a difficult journey. Meet the escorts making sure women don鈥檛 have to face it alone.
They Rode Horseback to Deliver Babies. A Century Later, Midwives Are Still Crucial
In Kentucky, these health care professionals still struggle for acceptance鈥攅ven in areas that need them most.
Her Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians.聽Now She鈥檚 Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
Banishing DREAMers: The Meanness Isn鈥檛 Just Trump
Tens of millions of Americans鈥攎any aging and white鈥攁re willing to sabotage young people rather than to accept racial diversity.
Now You Can Instantly Help Those Most Impacted by Hurricane Harvey
The #SupportBlackWomenHOU campaign uses popular money transfer apps to give resources quickly to those in need so they don鈥檛 have to wait for donations from large charities to trickle down.
No Elitist Farmers Market Here鈥擣ree Healthy Food and Profits for Farmers
How one Appalachian county is creating a healthy food system that supports not only nutrition, but also community life.
Tribes Were the First Climate Refugees鈥攁nd the First to Build Resilience Plans
The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it鈥檚 a template for all of Indian Country.
How to Protest Neo-Nazis Without Adding to the Violence
Ways to fight white supremacists without helping their cause.
5 Ways You Can Help Black Moms Take Back Breastfeeding
Insufficient support and stigma make Black women the least likely to breastfeed of any group.
Inside the ACLU: Defending White Supremacists as a Black Attorney
As a constitutional lawyer, I fully support the First Amendment. But as a black person, I鈥檓 conflicted when it comes to defending hate.
鈥淭his Is Our Land鈥�: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona鈥檚 justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
It鈥檚 Not Too Soon to Talk About the Post-Trump Era
Even when sensible adults finally take back government, 鈥渂ack to normal鈥� is not what we want.
There鈥檚 a Myth That White People Are Safer Among Other Whites
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safest living in places with high diversity鈥攂ut especially White people.
I Need to Start With the Racist Attitudes in Me
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
What is a 鈥渏ust transition,鈥� anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
In Truth and Reconciliation, First Things First鈥擳he Truth聽
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
Dear Fellow Lefties: Know Who the Real Enemy Is
United fronts aren鈥檛 about unity. They鈥檙e about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we鈥檙e going to act in solidarity against what鈥檚 trying to kill us.
The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy
Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� protests.
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