To fill the growing vacuum of history education in the U.S., racial justice organizers are offering truth-based curricula.

When Renee Lau, a special projects coordinator at the trans-led housing and wellness center Baltimore Safe Haven, transitioned at the age of 63, she lost everything. “My marriage fell apart,” she says ...

In 1992, a Canadian ecologist named William Rees coined the term “ ecological footprint,” a measurement of how much any entity was impacting the planet’s ecology. A decade later, British Petroleum ...

Abortion rights aren’t enough. The best reproductive care outcomes result from meeting basic needs.

Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Marroquin—who grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s—worried that speaking ...

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Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide.

Efforts to invest in “care, not cops” continue in advance of the 2024 election—albeit at a slower pace than in 2020. The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social ...

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As humankind grapples with climate change, communities around the world show what’s possible by planning hundreds of years ahead.

Sarah Gilman is a writer and illustrator covering the environment, natural history, and science. A contributing editor at Hakai and bioGraphic magazines, her work has also appeared in High Country ...

“Imagining the impossible is what people have been doing in the struggle for liberation,” says academic and activist Ruthie Wilson Gilmore in a conversation about her latest book.