This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past two decades, the number of Black adults with a college degree has more than doubled, from 3 million to 6.7 million, marking an increase in the percentage of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tim Ybarra, 62, flips through an assembly book for a geodesic dome. It will ultimately become a kitchen, providing one meal a day for residents of Union Point on the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rudy Carey was on his way to get drugs in the summer of 2004 when he got pulled over because the light over his license plate was broken. He’d been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Households of color often experience worse homeownership outcomes because of structural barriers, such as systemic discrimination in employment and mortgage underwriting, that reduce their ability to purchase a home, increase the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Statistically, Native populations have historically been misrepresented and underrepresented due to haphazard and inconsistent data collection practices. And when funding decisions hinge on the stories the data tell, urgent community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. National organizing and narrative: The Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of over 100 groups with a national leadership team of experienced organizers and leaders. Color of Change, a nationwide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite efforts to desegregate schools, “substantial” segregation often still takes place at the classroom level, according to a report from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The snack bar company Kind began airing a national TV commercial in June that seemed, well, not very kind at all. It pitted its product against a competitor’s—and became the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Meet 60623, the Chicago zip code containing the North Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods, one of the country’s biggest frontlines in the battle for environmental justice. Tucked into the city’s Southwest Side,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The disproportionate killing of innocent and unarmed Black men and women by police forces across the United States continues today despite more than five decades of steadily integrating many of those same…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization considers the constitutionality of a 2018 Mississippi law that prohibits women from accessing abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. This case is widely expected to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The neighborhoods and communities in which we grow up and live affect our future life outcomes. Yet the push for policymakers to address neighborhood disparities in health and economic outcomes…