This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mainstream media is less likely to cover Black homicide victims and less likely to portray them as complex human beings, a new study shows. When Raymond Griffin was shot and…
While capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty worldwide, the wealth gap in the United States continues to climb, with stark disparities across the economic spectrum. Most recently, the COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Learning gains during the 2019-20 school year are expected to be significantly lower than typical years due to the “COVID slide,” according to a report from NWEA published in Sage Journals. The research predicts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fay Twersky, vice president at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, recently launched The Listening Post, a monthly note dedicated to lifting up exceptional ideas, voices, and questions that can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change can often seem like a far off threat, but we know it’s already affecting our present and our future: we all want to drink clean water, breathe clean…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the fundamental drivers of the environmental justice movement is that low-income communities and communities of color are often at the forefront of environmental harm, since they are more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers to rethink their subject matter and casting practices. However, despite an increased sensitivity to gender…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Everglades are a vast network of subtropical freshwater wetland and estuarine ecosystems that once spanned the length and breadth of south Florida. Fifty years of dredging and diking, starting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This entails recruiting committed and resourceful volunteer board members, organizing the first board meeting, and, most importantly, guiding the new board on its roles and responsibilities, which includes fine-tuning the mission, setting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As communities across the nation continue to deal with the economic impacts of COVID-19, leaders are looking at immediate ways to keep families afloat, from extended unemployment benefits to stopping…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some effects of extreme weather are visible – like half a million acres of flattened corn in Iowa left behind after a derecho that hit the Midwestern United States on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating social and economic effects, companies are continuing their efforts to become more sustainable — and some are being recognized…