Human Rights

Striving for equality is a participatory undertaking.

To get a food co-op to form in Louisville’s largely Black neighborhood of Smoketown, co-op organizers needed to devise a different approach—rooted in community.

Consider the video camera outside your window. Does it give you a sense of safety or of being watched? The wearable tracker on your wrist—will it help you instill better health…

Defending incarcerated parents’ rights and attending to the needs of the children are vital goals that more states should pursue.

Medicaid expansion led to a 1.5% increase in survival of children with cancer. That means 200 more children alive two years after diagnosis.

“Nothing less than a death penalty by social deprivation” is how Stephanie Cacioppo, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, describes solitary confinement. And that is indeed what…

A lesson from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Studies of refugees from around the world confirm that families with children view education as one of their highest priorities along with other basic needs. In addition to an acute awareness…

Prison life in the U.S. is tough. But when you have an intellectual, developmental or cognitive disability – as hundreds of thousands of Americans behind bars do – it can…

In this podcast episode, Jacqueline Stewart breaks down some of the overlooked history of Black cinema stretching back to the early 1900s.

“We don’t acknowledge everyone’s trauma equally, and trauma as a field has been showing whose trauma matters over time.But trauma itself is an overwhelming event…”…