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Nearly all historically redlined neighborhoods are subject to noise levels linked with hearing loss, according to a new study.

Last December, nonprofit executive director Malik Yakini received an unexpected call. The caller, a woman who resides in California, said she wanted to direct a sizeable portion of her inheritance…

The latest CDC data shows a significant increase for women between the ages of 25 and 34. The number of suicides for men increased 2 percent.

The need to invest more in women-identifying and BIPOC documentary filmmakers by addressing inherent power imbalances in the film funding ecosystem is not new, as CMSI’s 2020 study, The State of…

August 28 marks the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. He called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the U.S.…

Twenty-one months after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, American democracy faces a crisis even more dire than the 1,200 angry rioters who breached the Rotunda and sought to…

This blog outlines four key reasons why quantifying what it means to be a BIPOC-led organization is more difficult than you’d think.

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Native American families have endured generations of systematic child removal, but the grief, loss and trauma that birth mothers still experience have been largely overlooked.

STEM PhD holders with disabilities are underpaid and underrepresented in United States academia, a study finds.

Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson discusses her approach to leadership and embracing “concepts of disruption” ahead of an existential election year.

When you perform qualitative interviews with the general public, you realize two things very quickly: The world is not black and white, and people for the most part are torn…