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From Helicon: Artists have specialized skills and capacities, but their basic needs are not unique. They need stable and affordable housing; access to health care and unemployment insurance; time off when they are sick or have a family crisis; fair wages; legal protection from exploitation; and…

There is grief, everywhere. In a time when COVID brings such a feeling of loss, news reports and social media are full of death. Presumably, these appear because people read…

Since Hillary Clinton’s spearheading of what she called a “gender data revolution” in 2014, numerous initiatives have been launched to generate more and better data on the lives of women and girls.…

Combatting hunger means fighting stigma, ‘pride gap,’ experts say…

For the Voices of Truth campaign, FHI 360, Jefferson County Memorial Project and Kids in Birmingham 1963 worked with Blank Space Bham to create a mural about racial justice.

A national campaign calls for communities to invest in high-quality and holistic after-school activities for students.

How the logic of carbon neutrality got “lit on fire” by big polluters.

It’s not about making white children ‘feel bad.’ It’s about teaching them how to build a better future.

In the months since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v.Jackson Women’s Health Clinic, more and more women have safely ended their pregnancies at home, witho……

The creation of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) in late 2015 as a charitable LLC — a for-profit entity being used for nonprofit, philanthropic purposes — was a signal moment…

The findings, which appear in the journal Contraception, suggest that inaccurate knowledge of abortion laws could be an additional barrier to care in environments that are hostile toward abortion. “Women have…

US Southeast and Gulf coast sea levels have risen about half an inch per year since 2010, researchers report.