This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This year, 9/11 holds a dual significance for Americans across the country. It not only marks the 20th anniversary of the tragic events and lives lost since Sept. 11, 2001,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mass incarceration has contributed to significant, harmful, and lasting racial and class disparities in America’s federal and state prisons. In 2017, for example, Black people accounted for 12 percent of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black Lives Matter has been called the largest civil movement in U.S. history. Since 2013, local BLM chapters have formed nationwide to demand accountability for the killings of dozens of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Minority businesses could boost the economy by as much as $300 billion, according to the Center for Global Policy Solutions. Yet many of these are sole proprietorships and are often working with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cheryl Dorsey has served as president of Echoing Green since 2002, after having received an Echoing Green Fellowship a decade earlier to help launch the Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill now moving through Congress will bring money to cities for much-needed investments in roads, bridges, public transit networks, water infrastructure, electric power grids, broadband networks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In today’s global economy, racism is not only ignorant, it’s costly. Just ask Facebook, which has lost billions in advertising revenue amid calls to eliminate hateful rhetoric from its platform. Hopefully, this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Off a country road deep in Durham, North Carolina, dozens of people wearing white shirts gather under a large, white tent in an open field. There is singing, clapping, and…
What will a just transition look like in practice? And how can you organization help make it happen? The Just Transition Alliance, I think, does a fantastic job of really…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rental payment history is a strong indicator of how well a borrower would perform with a mortgage loan. But until this week, these data have been largely left out of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign, conceived by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a means to advocate for equality and opportunity, was launched in Mississippi, defiantly, in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s not just the delta variant that makes Zhenghao Lin, a Chinese immigrant, nervous about returning to school next month. Zhenghao, a rising senior at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School…