Incarcerated Seniors Deserve a Chance to Come Home for the Holidays
Years of 鈥渢ough-on-crime鈥� policies have resulted in growing numbers of elderly people remaining in prison for decades. It鈥檚 past time to enact policies that help them come home.
Racial Justice
Why Are Women of Color in Academia Expected to Do Diversity Work?
Female faculty members of color are disproportionately called upon by both colleagues and students to do diversity, equity, and inclusion work鈥攚ith no compensation for this labor.
Facial Recognition Tech Perpetuates Racial Bias. So Why Are We Still Using It?
This unregulated technology has served to enhance discriminatory practices by law enforcement and further endanger the lives of communities of color.
Why Supporting Black-Run Child Care Centers Benefits Everyone
President Biden has already committed to addressing systemic racism. Here鈥檚 a good place to start.
Facing Eviction from an Urban Farm, Baltimore Activists Continue Their Fight for Food Sovereignty
After years of relying on fresh produce from a local urban farm, Baltimore鈥檚 Cherry Hill neighborhood is rallying together to save their farm from the city鈥檚 eviction notice.
A Guide to Climate Reparations
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions鈥攂ut what do they mean in practice?
How to Show Solidarity with Black Lives Matter this Holiday Season
Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter explains how the 3 core tenets of the Black Xmas campaign are building Black, buying Black, and banking Black.
Rittenhouse Verdict Highlights Statistical White Supremacy in Our Judicial System
White vigilantes get the benefit of the doubt in U.S. courtrooms.
The Gentrification of Wilderness
鈥淢aybe people are indeed loving places and species to death, but since BIPOC are largely disconnected from the organized outdoors, it鈥檚 white people who are spreading this toxic form of tough love.鈥�
A New Podcast Aims to Shift the Narrative on Police Abolition by Centering Movement Voices
The podcast, produced by the Detroit Justice Center, highlights how organizers are engaged in the hard work of abolishing police and prisons, and offers a counter-narrative to mainstream media reports.
Abolition Through the Ages: Reform Versus Transformation, Then and Now
Just as slavery couldn鈥檛 be reformed and had to be ended, policing can鈥檛 be reformed and has to be abolished, say leaders of modern-day abolitionist movements.
Sustaining the Chicano Movement Across Generations
In 1970, tens of thousands of people in East Los Angeles marched for equality, identifying themselves as 鈥淐hicano.鈥� Today, the Chicano Moratorium continues as young and old learn from one another.
When Reparations Grow From the Grassroots
Until federal reparations happen, local organizations across the country are stepping up.
Reverberations as a Generation Takes a Knee
With a simple gesture, Colin Kaepernick started a movement.
At COP26, Indigenous, Black, and Brown Activists Offer Radical Solutions for Climate Change
While elites fixate on technological fixes such as 鈥渘et zero鈥� emissions, communities of color fear it will disproportionately impact them and instead demand a just phasing out of oil and gas鈥攁nd a seat at the table.
A Road Trip to Explore Race Along the Nez Perce Trail
鈥淚 felt a kinship with the Nez Perce who, like my Japanese American community, were banished to less desirable land.鈥�
Filling In a News Gap for Black West Virginians
The Mountain State is mostly White, but one Black journalist looks to create the first publication for her community since 2006.
Noam Chomsky Talks Climate and Racial Justice
A conversation about the roots of our current climate crisis and humanity鈥檚 prospects for emerging into a livable future.
The Attractive and the Anonymous: Inequity in Media Coverage for Victims of Violence
The Gabby Petito case illustrated yet again how media outlets disproportionately fixate on missing and murdered White women. Veteran journalist Guillermo Torres analyzes why鈥� and how editors can do better.
Immigrants Like Me Experience Two Ends of the Climate Crisis
While my family lives under existential threat from catastrophic cyclones in Mozambique, immigrant communities in the diaspora, like mine in London, also have to face toxic air quality.
Whose Voices Are (and Aren鈥檛) Being Heard at COP26?
鈥淐OP26 is looking like one of the most inequitable, White, and segregated COPs to ever occur.鈥�
Vanessa Nakate on What Irks and Inspires Her Climate Activism
A conversation with the Ugandan activist about her new book and how it helped her see climate change differently.
A Master Altarista Explains the Essentials of a D铆a de los Muertos Altar
Mother of nine, matriarch Ofelia Esparza learned how to make D铆a de los Muertos altars from her mother. Now, she鈥檚 passing on the craft to a new generation.
Community Altars for D铆a de los Muertos Symbolize Tradition, Loss, and Hope
The annual Los Angeles Noche de Ofrenda in Grand Park鈥攚here D铆a de los Muertos blossomed into a national and international phenomenon鈥� returns after a one-year hiatus.
Chicano Artists Resist Commercialization of D铆a de los Muertos
After decades of dedicated work by Chicano artists in East L.A. to promote D铆a de los Muertos as a festival unique to their community, it is now a hyper-commercialized enterprise. Still, many are working to recenter the festival鈥檚 original intent of honoring the dead.
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