This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Weaving through the barren roads of North Memphis, Tennessee, I drive past rows of blighted homes, a tattered gas station with the sole grocery store, and a few bus stops…
Police and prisons don’t make us feel safe, argues Zach Norris, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Rather, what matters are relationships and community. Norris believes in the power…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. newsrooms are very white. So are the critics and the journalists that cover them. The Objective was founded, this year, for a specific reason: To provide reporting, first-person commentary, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A majority of foundations report making changes to better support racial equity and communities disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based on survey…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part One in a four-part series about the Georgia Systemic Change Alliance. Read Parts Two, Three, and Four. Faith, business, government, nonprofit, and philanthropy leaders in Georgia are hoping a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the months roll by, the pandemic continues to hit Indigenous nations hard. But this phenomenon is not new. Epidemics have been part of colonialism since settlers arrived. Health inequities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Anchorage School District must stop pressuring families and students to return to school during a pandemic. I am currently a senior and have always dreamt of the day I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In our most recent report, On the Frontlines, which examines how nonprofit leaders of color are faring in the wake of the pandemic, the usual concerns about not being treated fairly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, tens of millions of Americans avoid the flu vaccine. During the 2019-2020 flu season, fewer than half of U.S. adults got the shot. The Latino population is more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tamra Burns Loeb, UCLA School of Medicine and Dorothy Chin, UCLA School of Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the reality that health in the U.S. has glaring racial inequities.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pace of social and economic shifts often exceeds the capacity of communities and individuals to adapt to them. In the wake of centuries of structural racism and decades of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, CEP released the second report in a three-part series about foundations’ responses to the crises of 2020. Foundations Respond to Crisis: Toward Equity? focuses on how foundations have changed their practices…