Human Rights

Chronic stress from living with systemic racism and gun violence can lead to increased symptoms of PTSD and depression as well as elevated cortisol levels.

As the city expects another wave of newcomer immigrant families, educators are worried it will become even more challenging to support English learners.

Environmental justice movements work to end or stop disproportionate amounts of environmentally negative practices in vulnerable communities.

As a black boy in the San Francisco public school system, Chris Chatmon didn’t have access or exposure to Black history classes. It wasn’t until college that he was able…

The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently released new obesity management guidelines in order to help address the growing obesity crisis in children.

READ THE TRANSCRIPT In this episode, you’ll gain an understanding of how bias commonly plays out in the hiring process, and how organizations can better recruit and retain a powerful, diverse workforce that expands opportunity across lines of race and gender.Our guests are Alfonso T.

The Indigenous Earth Fund, an initiative from the Decolonizing Wealth Project, redistributes climate justice charitable funding to support the cultural solutions of Indigenous-led organizations.

In the Arizona desert, a new school model has Black parents driving across city lines to drop their children off each morning. Frustrated with what they say is their public schools’…

The metrics that mark career success for researchers are biased against already marginalized groups in science, say 24 researchers. The criteria that measure progress—or lack thereof—include how often a researcher’s…

Black girls who attended Philadelphia public schools say they faced systemic inequities regardless of demographics at their schools, according to an Education Law Center report.