Trees and edible plants are being planted at churches, schools, street corners, and empty lots across the country to provide free shade and food to all.
This investigative report uncovers questionable sourcing and a striking lack of physical or eyewitness evidence in two early reports that have been widely cited to bolster claims that Hamas committed mass sexual violence in its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
Disability justice activists are joining grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta’s Cop City, the largest police training campus in the U.S.
Technology has offered us more ways to connect than ever before. So why are we so isolated, lonely, and polarized?
Has the age of digital organizing come and gone?
Resisting biometric surveillance requires more than opting out.
Social media has the power to fuel—or foil—social movements.
Sharing our stories online enables us to define who we were, who we are, and who we will be as Indigenous peoples.
LGBTQ people are creating queer churches where no one’s identity is a sin.
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.
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