This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On June 5th, youth organizers from across Massachusetts converged on the State House in Boston for a public hearing before the Joint Committee on the Judiciary. The organizers have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By Andrew Wallace, Funders for LGBTQ Issues Once again this spring, Funders for LGBTQ Issues are taking stock of their Twitter feed to compile a list of inspiring LGBTQ people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At every post-election panel on a human rights issue I’ve attended, the same question arises: How do you expect the Trump presidency will impact your organization’s human rights advocacy? For…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For decades, the push to acknowledge women’s contributions gained traction, but progress may have flatlined. The goal of the movement was not to simply hold women leaders up as heroines…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When fashion designer Tish Cox decided to grow her business, she found a factory where blind sewers create garments with impeccable craftsmanship. Elaina Tillinghast, a 54-year-old seamstress, spends her days…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By AEI-Brookings This is an excellent and thought-provoking series of blog posts on paid family leave jointly sponsored by AEI and Brookings. Aparna Mathur at AEI and Isabel Sawhill at the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You wouldn’t think veterans, their families, and Gold Star families are being deported — but they are. What spurred me to speak to Chicago’s City Council about this is a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Facebook (FB, +1.51%) founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, a pediatric resident at the University of California San Francisco, donated $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Elephants are in crisis. Every year, approximately 35,000 are killed, largely to supply the illegal international trade in ivory and meet demand in Asia – primarily China. Reducing demand for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In “My Family’s Slave,” the devastating cover story in The Atlantic’s June issue, the late, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Tizon recounts the life of Eudocia “Lola” Pulido, a Filipino immigrant…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Artificial intelligence has a diversity problem. Too many of the people creating it share a similar background. To renowned researcher Fei-Fei Li, this paucity of viewpoints constitutes a crisis: “As…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A story published by The Hill last month about two studies claiming that “immigrants commit less crime than U.S. born citizens” misses the point that President Trump and other Americans are concerned…