This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Only about half the world’s women can make their own decisions on sexual consent and health care, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning such limited rights stand in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Raymond Riles arrived on Texas’s death row in 1976, the year President Gerald Ford lost his reelection bid and the first “Rocky” movie debuted in theaters. Riles had been sentenced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part four in a four-part series. Read Parts One, Two, and Three. “Anti-oppression can’t happen without the presence of spirit. Dehumanization, soul loss, and alienation are not states of mind,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the global health pandemic and its accompanying effects on the business and economic environment in 2020, impact enterprises received USD 2.6 billion in investments across 243 equity deals and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurant workers have been deemed essential — perhaps not officially by local authorities, but certainly by consumers, who continued to want the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the pandemic forced Austin-based Girlstart to go remote, the priority for Tamara Hudgins, its executive director, was finding a way to maintain that hands-on experience for the girls in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the next two decades, new homeowners nationwide will look vastly different than they have in the past for one primary reason: increasing racial and ethnic diversity. Until recently, structural barriers have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether you’ve traveled to distant parts of the world and were inspired by the inventiveness of the communities you visited, read about an issue in an article, or maybe just…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lebanon is on the brink of collapse. It has experienced a self-inflicted financial and economic meltdown, the pandemic, and the massive blast at the Port of Beirut. Saddled with a faltering confessional governance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lack of capital access and ownership is a historic and systemic barrier to equity, especially for Black, Indigenous, and other racial groups, and women. A number of efforts are underway to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a junior who is studying bioengineering, Amida Koroma has been a fixture on the dean’s list at the University of Maryland. Yet Koroma, who is Black, said she feels…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been nearly 4,000 attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders nationwide, according to the Stop AAPI Hate coalition. In Oakland, California, residents have…