Instead of using debt to punish communities of color and the poor, we should invest in everyone and defend our civic legacies for future generations.
The activist’s new book challenges the pessimism that sets in when we think radical change is politically impossible. But it misses something big.
Despite border walls and travel bans, the Middle East is still a region where the weary traveler is welcomed and embraced.
You’ve been lied to.
According to a new study, we concentrate better and feel less stressed when we fully detach from work and enjoy a real breather.
Out of the ashes of burning Cheetos, the new season offers lessons in democracy, compassion, and humanity.
When a relationship is causing you stress and suffering, follow these five steps to find peace for yourself.
The federal court decision could start a new chapter in the DAPL saga, beginning with dropping prosecution of water protectors.
More than a decade of relentless resistance from tribes, activists, farmers, and local communities finally killed the pipeline that wouldn’t die.
Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter.
Using an early photographic process, one photographer hopes to draw a line connecting what happened to the Dakota people in Mankato, Minnesota, 155 years ago and what is happening today to the Dakota/Lakota standing up to a $3.7 billion crude oil pipeline.
All children need to see inspiring, courageous characters–who look like them–in literature.
Stark boundaries—rich vs. poor, black and brown vs. white—begin to break down as people share parks, trails, libraries, nature centers, and other gathering places.
Modeled after the Civil Rights Era’s citizenship and freedom schools, the new Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership teaches skills for the Trump Era.
First, we must demand justice for ourselves. Second, those who have privilege and power must intervene for those without.
Binge-watchers of the new season will find it’s hard to be shocked by the usual Underwood White House treachery and corruption.
The three previous presidential impeachment inquiries rested on less evidence of obstruction of justice than is already publicly known about Trump.
This June marks the 74th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots, a series of weeklong race riots that swept Los Angeles in the summer of 1943. The spirit lives on today.
As much as I dislike and distrust our current national administration, I also deeply value community harmony.
It’s something we struggle to see more clearly, to realize day to day, to make more real in our lives. And that’s always messy business.
In Norway, a high-tech seed vault flooded from melting permafrost. In Montana, locals keep their seeds in the library.
Advocates in Santa Ana mobilize to educate, assist, protect, and inspire undocumented residents.
Forced assimilation destroyed most nations’ diets, but now Native youth are learning to integrate local foods back into their daily lives.
A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.
Why is mental illness the go-to line for white men who commit acts of terrorism against people of color?
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