New legislation designates six blocks as the Compton’s Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual District to help protect vulnerable residents and preserve cultural history.
Diplomat Omar Saif Ghobash wants to challenge rigid interpretations of what it means to be a good Muslim in the modern world.
In the chaos of Trump’s first three weeks in office, we can see a frighteningly coherent agenda—and a national and global emergency.
The full Seattle City Council voted unanimously on Feb. 7, 2017 to divest 3 billion dollars of their business from Wells Fargo Bank, a creditor for the Dakota Access Pipeline
The judiciary, the press, and states like California are major centers of resistance that hold independent power.
If you’ve valued our Standing Rock coverage over the months, tell the Morton County State’s Attorney to drop all charges against Monet. Journalism is not a crime.
Minneapolis and others are ready to follow.
With climate deniers sweeping into the White House, it’s time for scientists on the front lines of climate change to speak from the heart.
Reporter Jenni Monet has been charged with criminal trespassing and rioting, but the bigger story is about the failure of journalism institutions to rally.
The time to obtain contraceptives is now.
The progressive agenda over the next four years will be hard-won—and heavily illustrated—if the past few weeks are any indication.
In the heat zone of Louisville, Kentucky, 170 residents have been trained as “citizen foresters.”
This movement is not just about a pipeline. We are not fighting for a reroute, or a better process in the white man’s courts. We are fighting for our liberation.
People are turning their frustrations with the Trump administration into actions that make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable community members.
The UC system is severing $475 million in contracts with Wells Fargo over, among other things, the bank’s ties to private prison corporations.
As rents rise and independent businesses in Minneapolis lose their leases to large national chains, a first-of-its-kind co-op found a solution.
In Oregon, incarcerated women stay connected with their children through special visitations and virtual parent-teacher conferences.
The Navajo Nation is making moves to join a growing number of tribes that have already respectfully, but conclusively, shown Wells Fargo the door.
After years of work, advocates for immigrant rights rejoiced at the permit process, which will help keep 50,000 street vendors on the right side of the law.
Criminal sabotage was one of the charges for Ken Ward, who with fellow activists in Minnesota, Montana, and North Dakota shut down pipelines carrying tar sands oil.
Fifty-five percent of Americans know very little or nothing at all about Islam, but this group wants to change that.
We can start difficult conversations by speaking from the heart and sharing our wish for a world where everyone is safe and free.
The surge of formal opposition to tar sands and fracked oil pipelines shows how Standing Rock resistance has emboldened Great Lakes tribes.
The first step? Recognize that we represent the majority.
Congress is already slowing down on the promise to end the Affordable Care Act, as the realities of a replacement sink in.
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