This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Recently, a high school student told me she was terrified to go back to school. “I know,” I responded, “it’s hard to feel safe with Covid and the Delta variant…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1994, a teenager from Dayton, Ohio, found himself at the centre of a major international controversy… Michael Fay, then eighteen, was living with his mother and stepfather in Singapore…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are frequently segregated, with some neighborhoods divided by barbed wire fences, reflecting deep historical conflicts between the faiths. Ninety percent of Northern Ireland’s 1.87…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Carlos Sanchez-Gonzalez, now 16, grew up in the working-class South Baltimore neighborhood of Curtis Bay. He recalls first experiencing housing insecurity when he was about 9. “My dad thought it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Kelly Wofford is a veteran community engagement professional in the field of health care. This past March, after five years as director of community relations at Erie County Medical Center,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With students across California returning to classrooms earlier this autumn, it’s become undeniable that the ongoing pandemic is exacerbating systemic issues that long pre-date Covid-19. As in many similar districts,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was, says Renee King, the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. While attending a conference for aspiring Black tech entrepreneurs in 2019, she listened as a white “angel”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Paging Dr. Internet, we need a diagnosis. In this series, Mashable examines the online world’s influence on our health and prescribes new ways forward. The 18-year-old’s father described the devastation…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Younger learners in Illinois showed major declines in English language arts and math on end-of-the-year exams, revealing the toll the pandemic may have taken on students, according to newly released…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Climate Resilience Justice Fund, backed by funders including Porticus, Oak, Bosch, and Ikea Foundations, has called for at least $1 billion in philanthropic funding to address the injustice already…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s easy for sustainability professionals — or anyone else for that matter — to fall into a sense of climate despair. So much work lies ahead if humankind has a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its blood lead reference value – the level at which children ages 1-5 are considered to have high exposure to…