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Louisiana Communities Show the Many Contours of Climate Migration

Organizers are tackling climate displacement from all angles鈥攁dvocating for climate-displaced people, providing them with resources, and making their communities more climate-resilient.

Oisakhose Aghomo | Nov 21, 2022

Racial Justice | Native rights | Indigenous lands

Stolen Lands: A Black and Indigenous History of Land Exploitation聽

Colonization, through genocide, land theft, and the imposition of private property, has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations.

PennElys Droz | Nov 16, 2022

Illustration of birds flying out of a cage

Racial Justice | Criminal justice reform

What Do We Do While Waiting to Realize Prison Abolition?

Attorney Sia Henry shares a wrenching personal experience highlighting the challenges of operating in world where prison abolition is not yet a reality.

Sia Henry | Nov 11, 2022

Betty, a Black woman wearing a denim dress sitting on a blue wheelchair, smiles for the camera. There's bright green foliage in the background.

Uganda鈥檚 Diverse Disability Movement Offers Lessons for an Ableist Global Philanthropy 聽

Achieving disability rights paves the way for greater equity and inclusion.

Rucha Chitnis | Nov 10, 2022

Wealth and inequality

Assessing the True Extent of Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth

To address the problems of our 鈥渟urprisingly impoverished democracy鈥� in the midterm elections, Liz Theoharis argues that policymakers would have to take seriously the realities of tens of millions of poor and low-income people.

Liz Theoharis | Nov 4, 2022

Group of diverse disabled people celebrating

LGBTQ+ | Racial Justice | Gender justice

New Book Says It鈥檚 Time to Move Beyond Disability Rights and Embrace Disability Justice

鈥淭he Future Is Disabled鈥� by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha moves much-needed conversations on disability and mutual aid into the spotlight while pushing readers to confront their preconceived ideas about who belongs in the future.

Anna Hamilton | Nov 3, 2022

Native rights | Sustainable food and farming | Indigenous lands | Water

Aboriginal Activists Win Abalone Harvesting Rights

Their success is changing the perception of Aboriginal communities from 鈥渇ish thieves鈥� to leaders in regional development.

Makepeace Sitlhou | Nov 2, 2022

Racial Justice | Gender justice

We Need to Replace White Feminism With Inclusive Feminism

By centering feminism on gender alone and conveniently sidelining the impact of whiteness, class, culture, imperialism, and religion on gender parity, white women have co-opted the feminist space. It鈥檚 time to change this.

Saadia Khan | Oct 21, 2022

A man holds up a sign that reads "World Leaders, reparations for slavery now!"

Racial Justice

On the Other Side of Reparations, a New World Awaits

Inspiring stories about our past can open portals to the world that awaits us and help us dream what a world with reparations looks like.

Aria Florant, Trevor Smith | Oct 20, 2022

Intersectional Activism in a Post-Roe World

Abortion bans tend to disproportionately impact vulnerable populations in low-income, rural communities. Here鈥檚 how young people of color are fighting back.

Cynthia Via | Oct 13, 2022

Racial Justice | Immigration | LGBTQ+

What My Green Card Love Story Taught Me About Immigration

Insecurity and powerlessness are the norm for immigrants navigating the U.S.鈥檚 immigration system鈥攅ven when they are married to a U.S. citizen.

Jordan Arellano | Oct 12, 2022

Racial Justice | Criminal justice reform

An Abolitionist Makes a Case for 鈥淣o 无码视频 Police鈥�

The demand to 鈥渄efund the police鈥� asks politicians to go beyond platitudes and actually end the violence of policing, shifting resources in ways that promote the redistribution of wealth.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Oct 3, 2022

Racial Justice | Criminal justice reform

Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police

We can work for safety and liberation by investing in community-based alternatives to policing, like mental health programs, public education, restorative justice practices, and economic justice.

Marlene Sanchez | Sep 21, 2022

Native rights

Alaska Natives Use Virtual Imagery to Preserve and Pass on Culture

Thanks to digitization, a fragile Tlingit ceremonial garment is once again teaching traditional weaving techniques.

Frank Hopper | Sep 19, 2022

Racial Justice

An Activity Book for the Anti-Racist锟�

Comedian W. Kamau Bell together with his co-author Kate Schatz have written a new activity book, chock full of coloring pages, crosswords, thought experiments and exercises.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Aug 18, 2022