They're not always optimistic about the future of Camden, N.J. But they're committed to it anyway, and they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms.
They call themselves "nerdfighters"—and they're unlike any movement you've seen before.
Artists from Seattle's hip hop scene—including Macklemore and Ryan Lewis—speak about music's healing power.
Las Cafeteras uses acoustic instruments and punk attitude to spread their message of social justice and equality.
From Oakland to Brooklyn, practitioners of holistic health care are working to make their services affordable for all.
Ana Juárez started her first job at the age of fifteen, as a sewing operator’s assistant in Mexico. She was working at a local contracting company of global brands like Levi Strauss & Co. when senior workers began to organize.
When people tell their own stories, history is written from the bottom up.
The viral success of "The Meatrix" shows how a good story trumps a mountain of facts.
On Sunday, there is a break in the rain. There is a lot we could be doing in that break: painting beehives, knocking back the weeds around the grapes and
In Southern states, small-town courts have outsourced probation management to for-profit companies charging fees out of reach to the country's poorest residents. Many people end up in jail for nonpayment. These judges want private companies out of their courts.
If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can’t talk about it—which means that you can’t come together to change it.
Activists built support for the ordinance by demonstrating that it would reduce poverty in the city.
Coal-fired power plants are responsible for about 40 percent of United States' carbon emissions. That pollution would be regulated for the first time under the new proposed rules.
A program called the Walking School Bus provides kids an easy way to get regular exercise while getting to know their neighborhood.
While manufacturing circuit boards for Samsung, Hye-kyeong Han was diagnosed with a brain tumor, leading her to undergo a number of surgeries and radiation treatments. She was just 26 years old.
Clive Porabou was born on the Pacific island of Bougainville. Transnational mining company Rio Tinto was beginning to dig the world’s largest open-pit copper mine, displacing native residents. Armed conflict started even before excavation began.
After dozens of interviews, the guiding question of this oral history project shifted from, “Who are the people in the factories?” to, “How are workers and communities putting their futures at risk when they demand something better?”
In North Carolina, when school gets out each summer, a stream of young people—nearly all Latino—head into the fields to help bring in the state’s most profitable crop: tobacco. Neftali Cuello was twelve years old when she first accompanied her family into the fields.
First the anger, then the love—overcoming generational anger to find the courage required for the difficult work ahead.
Filters that contain fungi with powerful antibiotic properties can help remove harmful bacteria from water.
The teachers found their careers at risk when an erratic statistical tool became a key measure of their success.
Farah Tanis learned that, of the women in poverty she worked with, 9 out of 10 had experienced violence—so she started a bartering network to help them survive.
In Angelou’s poem “A Brave and Startling Truth,” we can sense the poet’s yearning for a more peaceful and loving future.
The PBS classic, which taught a love of books to generations of kids, will be coming back in an online version.
A midnight run-in with a spiny interloper forced me to re-evaluate my priorities.
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