This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mandela was released in February 1990 after spending 27 painful and cruel years behind prison bars and walls, primarily in solitude or in male-only environments. He rejoined a society scarred…
Half of the world’s poorest people have something in common: they’re small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One Acre Fund, is helping these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Systems change is particularly hard when the same rules that protect the rights of people to focus on building an equitable society and fighting racism protect the rights of people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. John Adams once said, “facts are stubborn things.” If the Massachusetts founding father were alive today pondering the challenge of North Korea, he might have revised his famous quote to,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As images of armed militias and others waving and wearing swastikas made their way across the globe, many of my European friends and family messaged me to ask why the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend began and ended with the kind of racial violence that should be impossible for people of the United…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 1. Education is the best prevention strategy Bibiana Ferraiuoli, the executive director of the Ricky Martin Foundation, which works to combat human trafficking through education, says peer education in particular…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Impact investors are increasingly adopting the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals as a guide to impact and opportunity. Yet little is known about which of the goals are getting the most…
The scale of the global refugee crisis has ratcheted up the pressure on governments and their international partners to find sustainable avenues for protection of the displaced. Successive international conferences,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every day, judges across America face defendants who have been arrested and who come before the court for arraignment. After setting a defendant’s court date, which could be months into…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to criminal justice reform efforts, states are leading the charge. Programs such as the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), a structured criminal justice reform process designed to help…