Black Trans Women Are Being Killed. Could Paying Them Help Stop This?
A little more financial security could make the difference between life and death for these women, who are often relegated to the margins of society.
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The Collective Healing That Is Owed
Reparations is no longer only about a one-time payout to Black descendants of slavery.
The Lies We鈥檙e Told About Appalachia
The old exploitative images are indelible: out of work, White, needy. They obscure the region鈥檚 diversity and long tradition of activism.
Drag Queen Activists
It鈥檚 about more than dancing and lip-syncing to disco hits. These drag queens are working to make the world a better place.
Only Bridging Can Heal a World of Breaking
At a time of heightened polarization and intense inequality in the United States and around the world, social differences run the risk of being turned into fault lines, and exploited
The Fear of Fat: Our Last Acceptable Bias
A sexist, racist history of anti-fatness and a for-profit 鈥渉ealth鈥� industry has left the U.S. with a weight problem鈥攂ut not in the way you might think.
To Confront Effects of Trauma, Start with Self-Care
Resilience practices and culturally rooted health traditions show promise for overcoming trauma in real-life settings.
In Detroit, A New Type of Agricultural Neighborhood Has Emerged
The Michigan Urban Farming Initiative is focusing on food insecurity and community investment.
Call Katie Hill鈥檚 鈥淪candal鈥� What It Is: Sexual Assault
The Congresswoman resigned after having an affair with a campaign aide, but she鈥檚 also a crime victim, and those two facts don鈥檛 cancel each other out.
Ending Domestic Violence Requires Working With Those Who Harm, Too
The Alliance for Boys and Men of Color鈥檚 Healing Together Campaign aims to end intimate partner violence by advocating for policy changes鈥攁nd seeking healing for both survivors and the people who harm them.
What Do Women Really Want?
One million women and girls around the world offered answers. Now their responses are influencing reproductive health care policy.
A Year After the Tree of Life Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Immigrant Racism Thrive
Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.
How to Be an Antiracist: A Conversation With Ibram X. Kendi
In his new book, the professor challenges traditional definitions of racism, and who can be racist.
A New Model for Health Care Respects Indigenous Agency
In Canada, Inuit and academic health care researchers have teamed up to combat poor cultural awareness in mainstream health care services.
Racial Microaggressions Are Real. Here鈥檚 How to Navigate Them
Experts weigh in on ways to deal with microaggressions that don鈥檛 burden Black, Indigenous, and people of color who experience them daily.
Colonization, Fire Suppression, and Indigenous Resurgence in the Face of Climate Change
The 130-year legacy of fire suppression in the U.S. is a process that continues to dispossess Native peoples of their lands.
While Supreme Court Waffles, Cities Stand Up for LGBT Workers鈥� Rights
No ruling, even from the highest court in the land, will invalidate state and city-level protections.
On Reparations, Let Impacted Communities Lead the Way
Reflecting on yesterday鈥檚 grassroots demands for restitution provides solutions for today.
Five Ways to Empower Voters Now
From reinstating voting rights of those with felony convictions to helping people obtain IDs, grassroots and state-level efforts are making it easier to vote.
It鈥檚 Time for Effective Oversight of Police Violence
Would the possibility of mandatory sentencing make a police officer think twice before pulling the trigger? What about them having to forego their pensions, or pay victims鈥� families from their 401Ks?
For Indigenous Peoples Day, Tribes Return to Alcatraz 50 Years Later
A new generation of Native activists will take a canoe journey around Alcatraz to mark Indigenous Peoples Day and pay homage to occupation of the island 50 years ago.
Making National Parks Accessible to Native People Again
A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?
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