This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Founded in 1945, CARE International is a globally present NGO working to alleviate poverty in over 102 countries around the world. With a special focus on women’s empowerment, CARE has a broad…
Black and Hispanic women experience cardiometabolic risks five to 11 years earlier than white women, but studies often underestimate the disparity, new research shows. These biases concerning heart disease and…
Both of us remember the moment in 2015 that leaders from all 193 countries at the United Nations unanimously agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). After three years of negotiation, at…
Louisiana’s prison system has the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the United States—589 per 100,000 residents in 2020—and nearly double the percentage of people serving life sentences compared to neighboring…
Fall is back-to-school time for college students all over Indian Country. It is a time when I pause and think about how important tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) are and…
One of the most enduring blind spots in U.S. educational outcomes is the implementation of policies and approaches that support excellence for Black boys both within and outside of schools.…
In the dozens of Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning, new research shows that 13 percent of deaths during the six hottest months every year from 2001 through 2019…
Women are on the front lines of natural disasters around the globe, and young activists from Greta Thunberg to Vanessa Nakate are leading the world’s growing climate movements, yet women and girls continue to…
As the world continues to search for climate change solutions, the investment in women from rural communities in countries such as India can spur gender equity, economic prosperity as well…
The woman was desperate by the time she arrived in Lucy Schulson’s exam room. Patches of itchy blisters had spread across her skin. Other doctors had assured her it was nothing, a…
As ubiquitous as “The Internet” is, more than 40 million Americans can’t access it from home. And rural Indigenous communities (at least 628,000 households) are some of the most disconnected. They’ve been forced…
Only 12% of people between the ages of 50 and 64 say they’re very likely to step forward to test a new dementia-prevention drug, and 32% say they’re somewhat likely,…