Human Rights

Starting a business is no easy feat, but the journey is often met with even greater challenges for Black women entrepreneurs. Access to capital remains a significant obstacle, as traditional funding sources tend to overlook or undervalue the potential of Black women-led ventures.

Photo via RHIHub Rural jail population statistics paint a grim picture of traumatized, abused or mentally ill individuals who volley betwee…

Because the Black male vote is targeted for suppression, defending democracy requires an equally targeted and data-driven response.

Some 28% of women working for colleges believe they have been passed over for a promotion because of their gender, according to new survey data from Gallup. Hispanic and Asian women were…

It hardly matters if you’re dealing with food justice activists or tech-startup entrepreneurs. Small, independent farmers or the corporate leadership of agribusiness giants. Policy wonks or research scientists. Everyone is talking…

Jeannie Infante Sager is the director of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, which works to “conduct, curate, and disseminate research that grows women’s philanthropy.”…

Nursing homes may not be ready for ‘tsunami’ of baby boomers. (Photo by G.A. Pflueger, Unsplash) Nursing homes have struggled for decades to…

Asian Americans continue to make up a small percentage of the overall population of people experiencing a housing crisis and, in many communities, they are underrepresented. As an example, the…

In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her…

LGBTQ+ workers earn about 10 percent less over their lifetimes compared to straight white men — and LGBTQ+ people of color, transgender people and nonbinary people earn even less. So, what’s driving the LGBTQ+ pay gap, and what can be done about it?

To support people who have been incarcerated and to reduce recidivism, policymakers and re-entry programs need to prioritize housing.

Philanthropy has played a critical role in the struggles of peoples for freedom and justice through the centuries — from abolition, suffrage, and ending apartheid to strengthening democracy, promoting peace,…