El Paso鈥檚 Teen Court is a peer-driven, youth-led program that centers the well-being of teenagers, instead of condemning them to the destructive criminal justice system.
A new statewide proposal is the latest development in a years-long saga over the voting rights of felons in the Sunshine State.
Kamala Harris may win the presidency, but the media鈥檚 portrayal of her won鈥檛 challenge the expectations of those who see Black women as their mammies.
鈥淲e need more white relatives to face their own truth, though doing so may bring immense discomfort,鈥� says Edgar Villanueva.
Despite conservative efforts to criminalize medication abortion using the 1873 Comstock Act, organizers continue to expand access to this necessary health care.
In the Netherlands, where most people are non-religious, a scientist is using neopaganism to shift the dialogue around climate adaptation.
Author Hilary Giovale knows that moving through guilt into accountability creates necessary change鈥攆or yourself and others.
Often forced to become experts on their own treatment, rare-disease patients are modeling the collective care and mutual aid networks that can help ensure everyone's long-term survival.
Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide.
Practicality meets possibility in Ayana Elizabeth Johnson鈥檚 new book, which dares to ask, 鈥淲hat If We Get It Right?鈥�
Schools are a powerful place to begin building an LGBTQ-affirming culture, as an antidote to fear and bigotry.
The Tony Award-winning play, loosely based on Alicia Keys鈥� childhood, falls into the same trap much theatre does, failing to depict the nuances of Black trauma.
New findings challenge the political adage that youthful idealism gives way to conservative pragmatism with age.
From the U.S. to Palestine, Indigenous people have been pushed off their land in the name of conservation. It鈥檚 time we decolonize our relationships鈥攚ith the Earth and each other.
Can organized labor continue its recent momentum into the next presidential administration?
Creating a space where magic can unfold and meaningful change can occur requires intentionality, trust, and courage.
After a 19th-century treaty left them landless, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians are reclaiming their ancestral lands鈥攁nd their traditional wildfire management practices.
Donald Trump鈥檚 debunked claims tap into a centuries-long racist narrative that has real impact on Haitian immigrants and Haitian Americans, in Ohio and beyond.
As the seasons change and the light retreats, a poet invites us to be patient and discerning in knowing what is for us鈥攁nd what is not.
Gen Z voters are cautiously optimistic about the vice president. But they want her to end the Gaza genocide.
Right-wing forces are recruiting Asian Americans. Here鈥檚 how community members are countering this growing extremism.
Votes are power, and many protestors are declaring that without an arms embargo on Israel, no candidate will get their vote.
Restorative justice can be a challenging approach to domestic violence, but it can also be rewarding when the people involved are participating with genuine desire to find a path forward.
Despite muted microphones during the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, each candidate's face spoke volumes.
The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.
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