We must honor our foods as the wisdom keepers they are.
Social media demands that we navigate the fine line between connection and envy.
Our data has real impacts on the planet and its people.
Everyone deserves access to the devices, affordable internet, and knowledge to participate in our digital world.
The stolen souls aboard the Clotilda slave ship’s final, illegal voyage remained suspended across space and time.
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, still exists more than a year after Elon Musk acquired it, but it’s a shell of its former self. Rather than a real-time
Thanks to pop culture, more couples than ever are seeking professional help in service of better sex.
Reina Sultan is a Lebanese American Muslim journalist and one of the co-creators of 8 to Abolition. She is a prison industrial complex abolitionist and anarchafeminist, working to disrupt systems
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Tulsa’s Greenwood District is measuring its wealth in bonds between people and generations, even as reparations for the 1921 massacre remain elusive.
California is closer than any other state to realizing reparations for Black people. Now, the state faces a make-or-break moment.
Cities like Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina are paving the way for local reparations in the absence of a federal plan.
Centering healing justice in the filmmaking process offered this creator—and everyone involved in the film—a powerful way to begin to heal core wounds.
Investing in programs, resources, and physical spaces by and for Black youth is critical to narrowing generationally inherited disparities in wealth, health, and beyond.
As the movement for reparations gains steam, mainstream and independent content creators continue to find new ways to advance the idea of reparative damages for Black people on screen.
An exclusive digital series exploring the leading edges of the reparations ecosystem—and revealing a path toward healing and reconciliation.
Can “reparationist” be a distinct identity, akin to feminist or abolitionist, a label worn with pride by progressives who believe in reparative compensation for Black people?
After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.
Flowers, chocolates, and jewelry are carbon-intensive ways to show your love. Try these alternatives instead.
The authors of “The Conceivable Future” argue that we should focus less on whether or not to have babies and more on stopping the extraction and burning of fossil fuels.
Data shows that straight, cisgender women are much less likely to have orgasms during sex than their cis male partners. Is it possible to remedy this erotic inequality?
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