This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research links the Affordable Care Act’s elimination of out-of-pocket costs for contraception with fewer births, especially among low-income families. Nearly half of pregnancies in the US are unplanned, and there’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As schools grapple with longstanding racial inequities brought into sharp focus by recent cases of police brutality and the coronavirus pandemic, one problem stands out: Black girls often face both…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, the USDA extended a pandemic response program allowing public schools to serve free meals to all children for the 2020-21 school year. This unprecedented move came thanks to the voices…
In episode 82 of the Disruptors for GOOD podcast, I speak with Matine Khalighi, Founder of EEqual, on developing impactful programs that create opportunity for students fighting homelessness and extreme poverty in America.…
Madam C.J. Walker was an early twentieth century Black philanthropist known as America’s first self-made woman millionaire. “Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy During Jim Crow,” a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As global job losses mount due to the COVID-19 pandemic, desperate people are seeking new ways to make money via social media, and evidence points to a resulting deadly surge…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the world — including in the U.S. — equitable access to education isn’t always a guarantee. From birth, many girls begin an uphill trek through gendered injustices to reach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We may be in the same storm, but we are not in the same boat,” Don Gips, Skoll Foundation CEO, said as he convened a recent town hall discussion, The Color…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Following several nationally publicized police killings of unarmed Black Americans in the United States, Eva L., a fitness instructor who identifies as Black, started to experience what she describes as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fifty-seven percent of women experiencing homelessness cite domestic violence as the immediate cause of their homelessness. This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we sat down with the Domestic Violence and Housing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Suspensions fell sharply last school year, largely because few schools handed them out when campuses were shuttered due to the coronavirus. In total, suspensions dropped to 18,215 during the 2019-20…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. They aren’t all old enough to cast their ballots, but the teenagers Chalkbeat spoke with are clear on what’s at stake for them this Election Day. The response to COVID-19,…