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

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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 ...

Powerful stories can change the world. Women’s suffrage. Abolition. Civil rights. Each began with stories that planted the seeds of powerful ideas and inspired millions with new possibilities for ...

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Critical Toxicity Studies calls for the scientifically rigorous study of toxicants that handles all bodies and identities with care.

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The beguiling, mist-covered forest of Los Cedros provides a vision of a future where the rights of the natural world are actively and effectively protected.

Truth and Reckoning Recognizing the generational harm caused by Native “boarding schools” is just the beginning. True healing must center the Indigenous ways of being that these genocidal institutions ...

Childhood poverty continues to plague the U.S., though simple solutions exist to address it. Will the next administration implement them? As kids head back to school and the general election nears, ...

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 ...