How Artists are Transforming Climate-Related Storytelling
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Community Organizers Are Helping Immigrants Navigate COVID Misinformation
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Grizzly bears are legendary creatures of human fear and awe. But we find this endangered species hard to live with.
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The youngest inaugural poet encouraged us to own our history and repair our nation.
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“When we started our farm-to-hospital concept, we never could have anticipated a global pandemic, but the pandemic provided proof of concept.”
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By addressing prejudices head-on with an open mind, blues musician Daryl Davis has succeeded in convincing over 200 KKK members and other White supremacists to disavow their allegiances.
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Tribes Are Leading the Way to Remove Dams and Restore Ecosystems
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"In case after case, a radical minority disrupted the functioning of businesses and state institutions, which sought to restore stability by granting concessions and ordering politicians to do the same."
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Supporting BIPOC Communities Requires Investing in BIPOC Leaders
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Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand.
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"My desire to be transformed by the Sacred Black Feminine sent me deep into the dark forests of my trauma, so I could be healed."
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Affrilachian artistry and identity allows Appalachia to be fully seen as the diverse and culturally rich region that it is.
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Care Workers Demand Federal Support as First Responders in Climate Crises
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In a new book, Gus Speth charts 50 years of the U.S. government’s role in causing global warming.
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Because the humanity of every person is what we fight for when we advocate to end police violence, to support better treatment for COVID patients and doctors, or to institute justice everywhere.
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To Resist Tyranny, Cross Social Boundaries
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The national ethos of economic equity was decades in the making.
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Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the long-held view of water as a human commodity. Can the same approach work in the United States’ arid Southwest?
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Legislation is pushing back against a waste-based economy by requiring companies to help customers fix their appliances and electronics.
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An Indigenous writer describes how ritual is the entryway to connection and wholeness.
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The Two-Spirit Diplomat Who Mediated Two Worlds
The World’s Tallest Timber Tower Could Be the Future of Sustainable Construction
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Meet the podcast host challenging what we think we know about Black Appalachians.
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"While Indigenous and other people of color traditionally lack the power to enact racism, we can and do exercise clear racial prejudice against Black people."
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Instead of insisting on superlatives amidst spiking inequalities and insurgent fascism, we should be striving toward policies that are socially responsible and work to establish decent baselines.
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Another Legal Win for South Africa’s Indigenous Communities
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To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, “Safety for whom? And from what?”
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Does the Supreme Court’s Power Pose a Threat to Its Legitimacy?
Studying history is like detective work—especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of the story.
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“Slow work is an exercise in doing less, and more aspirationally, doing nothing.”
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Politicians are redrawing electoral maps to reflect new census data. Activists are trying to make sure they do it fairly.
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Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
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Inspiring stories about our past can open portals to the world that awaits us and help us dream what a world with reparations looks like.
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A new book by Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how #DisabilityJustice, from its inception, has been created and led by #QTBIPOC. Read ’s review of #TheFutureIsDisabled.
