This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the fact that 26 percent of U.S. adults live with a physical or psychological disability, people with disabilities are largely unseen or inaccurately depicted in movies and other media,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World health experts met recently to discuss an emerging global health crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic: plummeting rates of basic vaccinations among the world’s children. While many experts have been acutely…
In this episode we talk to Stelio Stefanou OBE, philanthropist and Founder of the For Baby’s Sake Trust (FBST) – a charity which focuses on working with parents to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Togetherness is a defining characteristic of collective giving groups like Charlotte’s New Generation of African American Philanthropists (NGAAP). I, along with my fellow members, share values around preserving culture, building community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From mid-March 2020 through the start of May, as COVID-19 spread across the United States, more than 33 million U.S. workers lost their jobs, with unemployment rising faster among immigrants…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, I was living in Israel while researching a book about the country’s fight against groups that challenge its legitimacy. Every Wednesday, a new batch of Ben & Jerry’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Taliban insurgents continue their deadly war to seize control of Afghanistan after the departure of United States and NATO forces. As they close in on major cities that were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the many reasons mass incarceration persists is because people too poor to afford their own lawyers are denied meaningful representation in court. This injustice happens because public defense…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although the pandemic has been devastating for everyone, it’s been especially hard for college student mothers. Many were forced by school and day care closures to prioritize care and remote learning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every time Ana Ponce drives down the highway between Los Angeles and San Diego, she’s haunted by a childhood memory: Her night in lockup — the sterile white room, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lori Lynn Adams was a mother of four living in poverty when Hurricane Floyd struck eastern North Carolina in 1999, flooding her trailer home and destroying her children’s pageant trophies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I spent 40 years working in healthcare, mostly as a certified nursing assistant, taking care of elderly and infirmed patients. None of that prepared me to watch my own son…