This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The deep wounds of systemic racism have plagued communities across this country for generations, and in 2020, the largest response in this nation’s history made it explicitly clear that we…
As COVID has accelerated the movement to “remote everything,” the digital exclusion of historically marginalized groups is facing crisis proportions. In response, the National Urban League, working with other civil…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a report on foundations’ equity efforts related to the 2020 crises released in December by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), the organization I lead, we found that of 218 foundations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part one of a four-part series. Read Parts Two, Three, and Four. What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2021 will be an opportunity to leverage the hard lessons of the past year and work in solidarity to accelerate the much-needed progress to achieve our shared goals. The year…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing women in the US out of the workplace in droves, putting them at risk of years of unemployment and financial uncertainty. US employers cut 140,000 jobs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Through much of the last year, COVID-19 has propelled many people to accept and follow new patterns of behavior. These include wearing a mask in public, attempting to socially distance…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Editor’s note: The economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic has increased the number of Americans who can’t always get enough to eat, including children. The Conversation U.S. asked…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Capital punishment is the culmination of violence at both ends of society: the violence of the individual criminal, who is caught in a cycle of violence and whose life ends…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Crisis, conflict, social media, and ego are devastating communities across the country, and last week, we saw them lead to an unprecedented attack on our nation’s Capitol. This public display…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part Two in a four-part series about the Georgia Systemic Change Alliance. Read Parts One, Three, and Four. By August, city and community leaders in Savannah, Ga. are expected to have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. If a crisis…