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In Conversation with Everette Taylor, Breonna Taylor鈥檚 Father

Everette Taylor didn鈥檛 get to say goodbye to his daughter. Stuck behind prison walls, Taylor speaks with 大象传媒 about how he remains connected to his surviving children despite decades of incarceration.

Stephen Silha | Mar 9, 2022

Education

Critical Race Theory Opens Up New Opportunities for Student Learning

Amid the heated national controversy about CRT in schools, some Black educators are openly using the framework to help students better understand history and contextualize current events.

Ruth Terry | Mar 8, 2022

Wealth and inequality

Supporting BIPOC Communities Requires Investing in BIPOC Leaders

The philanthropic sector needs to shift its focus toward those organizations that best understand the communities they serve.

Lem White, Nwamaka Agbo | Mar 4, 2022

The U.S. Constitution Was Meant to Be a Work in Progress

Author and legal scholar Elie Mystal鈥檚 first book argues that the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights are deeply flawed, but that it鈥檚 still possible to use them to protect the rights of women and people of color.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Mar 1, 2022

Health care | Body Politics

What Black Disabled Women Want

The basic human rights of proper health care and opportunities through work should be available to everyone.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul | Feb 24, 2022

Mental health

Healing Generational Trauma

For Black and Indigenous communities, it takes more than therapy and medicine to tackle mental illness. We need a holistic approach.

Jasmin Joseph | Feb 16, 2022

Wealth and inequality

Can Monthly Cash Payments Make Our Economy More Equitable?

Two guaranteed income projects in New York City and Atlanta are showing how modest monthly cash payments to low-income women of color can make a huge difference in alleviating race and gender-based economic inequities.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Feb 11, 2022

Unpacking the Uproar Over the First Black Woman Supreme Court Nominee

Dr. Judy Lubin of the Center for Urban and Racial Equity explains why it is important to be intentional about dismantling systemic racism in the coming battle to nominate the next Supreme Court justice.

Sonali Kolhatkar | Feb 9, 2022

Native rights

An Afro-Indigenous Perspective on Policing

In his new book, Kyle T. Mays argues that the violence of policing has always been intimately tied to U.S. democracy.

Kyle T. Mays | Feb 8, 2022

Mental health

Barriers to Mental Health Care for Asian Americans鈥攁nd Solutions

Understanding why many Asian Americans don鈥檛 seek mental health care鈥攍ike stigma and lack of culturally appropriate resources鈥攊s essential to providing effective support.

Grace Galletti | Feb 2, 2022

Immigration

Why Trump鈥檚鈥楻emain in Mexico鈥� Policy Must End

A Trump-era rule requiring immigrants to remain in Mexico while awaiting their cases has caused suffering and human rights violations. The U.S. Supreme Court is now thwarting President Biden鈥檚 attempt to end the rule.

Annika Olson | Jan 20, 2022

Reproductive rights | Health care

Midwives and Doulas Address Racial Birth Disparities in California

Across the state, midwives and doulas are working to increase education and access to their services to more Black and Brown women.

Myah Overstreet | Jan 19, 2022

Gender justice

Remembering bell hooks, a Revolutionary Who Led With Love

Leaving behind a prolific body of work and a powerful legacy, Black feminist writer and thinker bell hooks taught us about radical intersectional politics鈥攁nd love.

Barbara Ransby | Jan 18, 2022

Wealth and inequality

Martin Luther King Jr., Labor Activist

One often-overlooked aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.鈥檚 life and career was his strong support of labor unions, calling them America鈥檚 first anti-poverty program.

Peter Cole | Jan 17, 2022

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