Human Rights

While Brittani Williams was busy working toward her bachelor’s degree, the student loan debt she was quickly accruing rarely crossed her mind. Her focus was on her coursework. A first-generation…

When Dr. Amy Barnhorst treats patients for mental illness in county jails, emergency rooms, and psychiatric hospitals, she sees more than the person standing before her. She takes in their life…

If emissions targets are to be met, coal has to go. From the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign to President Obama’s anti-coal policies, efforts to fight climate change often hinge on dismantling the industry.…

The pandemic has taken a toll on many families’ economic security. Some families with low incomes lost employment or work hours, and families with children experienced heightened food insecurity and struggled to pay for…

A few months before the pandemic began, the two of us met for the first time at a Panera Bread cafe in Raleigh, N.C., to discuss how our new nonprofit…

“Traditionally, advocacy has been a few people speaking on behalf of others. But…it is also about movement building and power building, grassroots engagement, and community organizing. It is about people…

When it comes to shifting away from a carbon-based economy, the two big questions are “how” and “how fast.” Answering either will require a parallel shift in employment priorities. Fortunately,…

Glenn Albright, a professor, and clinical psychologist at Baruch College at the City University of New York, may have an idea to help educators taking care of those teens: virtual…

Food, culture, and the changing climate can all benefit from one small thing: seeds. Here’s why saving seeds is crucial. Before the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world, I was researching…

The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays for…

Addressing place names in national parks could be a starting point for reckoning with the country’s history of dispossessing Indigenous nations from their lands. The new paper in the journal People…