How the civil rights icon changed from a hopeful reformer to a radical critic.
Even as the U.S. rate of infant mortality has decreased, the rate of maternal mortality has increased. Here’s what male-dominated medicine has to do with it.
I want to experience the solidarity of allied actions that refuse fantastical narratives of commonality and hope.
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Guns are to little boys what sex is to teens. If I wasn’t teaching my children about it, you could bet some other kid on the school bus was.
The Kashia’s success might be the first time that a tribe in the U.S. has held a private deed—as well as management rights—to their ancestral lands.
Simply hearing others talk about a sport they love clearly triggers enjoyable memories.
They’re reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
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Our disabilities are not our bodies. Our disabilities are a society based on capitalist assumptions that greatness confers meaning in one’s life.
The spirit and sass of the Parkland school’s namesake live on in the million young anti-violence activists who have risen up since the shooting.
Baby steps, as frustrating as they may be, are sometimes necessary for making important gains on the path to social justice.
A society that fails to invest in its children, to protect its land and water, or to build a future is courting collapse.
Alarm over John Bolton, who has pushed for pre-emptive war in North Korea and bombing Iran, isn’t just among progressives.
In her latest book, author adrienne maree brown envisions a world of abundant justice, abundant attention, and abundant liberation.
The digital justice project is putting people online and providing technology training in Detroit neighborhoods.
Photographer Josué Rivas spent seven months living at Standing Rock, documenting the gathering force of Native Americans and their allies. He says it wasn’t just a protest; it was an awakening.
Recent Greyhound bus raids have revealed an obscure law that gives Border Patrol authority 100 miles inside borders, across the entire perimeter of the country.
The social network has done more for bolstering the modern Indigenous rights agenda than perhaps any other platform of our time.
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The company does more than just sell your data. It has put modern democracy at stake.
Those trying to cure a loneliness epidemic by bringing people physically closer to their neighbors are oversimplifying its modern meaning.
As lawmakers argue over how best to address school shootings, student clubs are focused on reducing youth violence at schools and in their communities.
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