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[Image description: A golden mask, the kind that might be used at a masquerade party. Image by Julio Rionaldo on Unsplash] Hi everyone.It is October, which means my favorite holiday is coming up: ……

In Boston, a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual community is organizing to preserve Dorchester as a neighborhood that provides affordable housing for all.

Analysis of federal data reveals ‘a relaxed attitude’ toward daily attendance, experts said.

In the challenging landscapes of Texas and Florida, where immigration policies directly impact migrant communities, frontline migrant justice organizations grapple with increasingly hostile environments and limited resources.   Recent developments have…

Fire officials and landowners have known for years about gaps in Hawaii’s firebreaks and fuelbreaks. The problem boils down to money and cooperation.

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. Meanwhile, almost 40 percent of the …

Women’s mental health and wellbeing have traditionally received insufficient attention from the healthcare field, from government, and from philanthropy, creating a gap that needs to be filled if we hope…

Coffey: I taught at a school where restorative justice genuinely worked, and we had something else essential: a robust staff…

To this crucial question as we emerge from the pandemic let’s remind ourselves first of three incontrovertible facts that we must take into account, then derive some principles and criteria, before examining…

Philanthropy is rooted in and continues to operate within inequitable systems and structures. Philanthropists have long sought to address these inequities in their grantmaking, and in recent years many have…

The AAAS-led STEM Opportunity Alliance seeks feedback on America’s first National Strategy for STEMM Equity and Excellence by November.

Because of new restrictions on abortion, a generation of doctors will be ill-equipped to meet their patients’ needs due to insufficient gynecological training, experts warn. And across the country, maternal-care deserts will likely expand, as graduating medical students and residents avoid…