The Importance of Training Teachers to Better Understand Their Native Students
Native students have the highest dropout rates, but a college program for educators aims to change that.
Democracy
“Carpe Diem Politics”: How to Do More Than Just Resist
Today’s social justice movements must seize opportunities, mobilize quickly, and, finally, embrace a carnival spirit.
Can You Celebrate American History Without Celebrating Colonialism?
In Santa Fe, New Mexico, the move to decolonize the annual Entrada celebration shows how complex identity and culture are.
Racist Voter Suppression Revealed in a Small-Town Voter Fraud Trial
As the nation faces demographic shifts, the push to suppress voting intensifies.
How a Free Grocery Store Is Cutting Food Waste—and Hunger
Each weeknight, The Free Store redistributes up to 1,500 surplus food items to anyone who wants them—no questions asked.
Comic: We Sent Our Illustrator to Activist Summer Camp. Here’s What Happened
Meet Jen, who went to sleep-away camp a newbie activist and came back ready to fight for social change.
How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis
Here are 13 of the best ideas for a just and sustainable food system, from saving seeds to curbing food waste.
The Volunteers Protecting Kentucky’s Last Abortion Clinic
The walk from the parking lot, past protesters, to the embattled clinic’s front doors can be a difficult journey. Meet the escorts making sure women don’t have to face it alone.
They Rode Horseback to Deliver Babies. A Century Later, Midwives Are Still Crucial
In Kentucky, these health care professionals still struggle for acceptance—even in areas that need them most.
Her Ancestor Was a Slave to Cherokee Indians. Now She’s Applying to Be a Citizen of the Tribe
A landmark decision offers opportunity for healing between descendants of slaveholders and slaves.
Banishing DREAMers: The Meanness Isn’t Just Trump
Tens of millions of Americans—many aging and white—are willing to sabotage young people rather than to accept racial diversity.
Now You Can Instantly Help Those Most Impacted by Hurricane Harvey
The #SupportBlackWomenHOU campaign uses popular money transfer apps to give resources quickly to those in need so they don’t have to wait for donations from large charities to trickle down.
No Elitist Farmers Market Here—Free Healthy Food and Profits for Farmers
How one Appalachian county is creating a healthy food system that supports not only nutrition, but also community life.
Tribes Were the First Climate Refugees—and the First to Build Resilience Plans
The Swinomish of Washington produced a climate adaptation plan two years before the state. Now it’s a template for all of Indian Country.
How to Protest Neo-Nazis Without Adding to the Violence
Ways to fight white supremacists without helping their cause.
5 Ways You Can Help Black Moms Take Back Breastfeeding
Insufficient support and stigma make Black women the least likely to breastfeed of any group.
Inside the ACLU: Defending White Supremacists as a Black Attorney
As a constitutional lawyer, I fully support the First Amendment. But as a black person, I’m conflicted when it comes to defending hate.
“This Is Our Land”: Indigenous Rights Activists Respond to White Supremacist Rhetoric
At the Trump rally Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona’s justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.
It’s Not Too Soon to Talk About the Post-Trump Era
Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.
There’s a Myth That White People Are Safer Among Other Whites
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safest living in places with high diversity—but especially White people.
I Need to Start With the Racist Attitudes in Me
Some of my anger at the recent actions of white supremacists comes from acknowledging my own capacity for ugliness.
Climate Justice Is Racial Justice Is Gender Justice
What is a “just transition,” anyway? Bill McKibben asks Jacqueline Patterson, the director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program.
In Truth and Reconciliation, First Things First—The Truth
Truth-telling needs to come first before we can begin to heal the racial divide and redress past harms.
Dear Fellow Lefties: Know Who the Real Enemy Is
United fronts aren’t about unity. They’re about survival. We have a lot of wounds to heal if we’re going to act in solidarity against what’s trying to kill us.
The Historical Falsehoods That Feed White Supremacy
Behind the racist slogans are historical tropes that the broader White America clings to, not just those who showed up for the “Unite the Right” protests.
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