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Can We Rebuild the Country After Trump?
No system is perfect, but there are many others around the world that do better than ours. We should follow their examples.
Meet the Abortion Clinic Escorts Shielding Patients From Harassment
The parking lot of a North Carolina abortion clinic is at the center of a battle between anti-abortion protesters and clinic escorts.
The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over
We are entering humanity鈥檚 defining decade, and 2020 is when we have to make the hard decisions.
What the U.S. Economy Can Learn From the Nordic Model
The U.S. economic system contributes to ongoing crises of addiction and mental health. The Scandinavians figured out the solutions decades ago.
What the White Debate Stage Says About Racial Equity
Is the U.S. really ready for change?
I Turned My Child Marriage Trauma into Activism
Between 2000 and 2010, nearly 250,000 minors were married in the U.S.
White Supremacy Is the Root of Violence Against Jews
Two recent attacks against the Jewish community in the New York City area have come at the hands of people of color, specifically Black Americans. Trained as we are to
Alicia Garza: How to Prepare for 2020
Who鈥檚 ready for 2020?! As we head into the next decade, many of us are already worn down, discouraged, and exhausted from the rapid-fire struggles of the past three years
Beyond Compensation for Reparations
Every innovation our world has experienced began with imagination. In today鈥檚 society, we suffer from imagination deficiency when it comes to considering the humanity of all people, regardless of their
Code-Switching Is Not Trying to Fit in to White Culture, It鈥檚 Surviving It
The voice that sprung from my throat was unfamiliar as I introduced myself to a classroom of White students. Its tone was high-pitched and enthusiastic鈥攁 far cry from my naturally
5 Tips for Surviving the Holidays With an Eating Disorder
For years, when I would go home for Christmas, I would have the exact same conversation with my grandmother. 鈥淗ave you lost weight?鈥� she would ask, jubilantly. I almost never
Why Impeachment Matters, Regardless of the Outcome
As I鈥檓 writing this, the House Judiciary Committee has unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Trump which, according to my awesome powers of precognition, are going to get approved
Who Owns Your Grocery Store?
鈥淲ho owns your grocery store?鈥� It鈥檚 the question emblazoned on the back of a van that has ferried me across 34 states to visit 128 consumer-owned grocery stores (food co-ops)
Can We Get the Money Out of Politics?
Lost amid the daily news cycle now focused on the impeachment of the president is the fact that money continues to roll in. Democratic candidates are constantly asking donors to
Healing From Colonization on Thanksgiving and Beyond
Edgar Villanueva and Hilary Giovale share an ancestral bond that is far from unique, but one that is rarely acknowledged. Edgar is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North
What 鈥淟atinx鈥� Doesn鈥檛 Include
I recently came across a video about the Chicano Moratorium March of August 29, 1970. In case you鈥檝e never heard of it, the march was a watershed moment in the Chicano Movement,
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
This month in a Manhattan courthouse, New York State鈥檚 attorney general Letitia James argued that ExxonMobil should be held accountable for layers of lies about climate change. It鈥檚 a landmark
Stop Calling Me an Activist
Oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals began as I stood outside the massive stone blocks that sustain one of the
The Trauma of Transracial Adoption
It takes a lot to break through the brainwashing and barriers of Whiteness鈥攅ven for those raised with racial support.
Call Katie Hill鈥檚 鈥淪candal鈥� What It Is: Sexual Assault
The Congresswoman resigned after having an affair with a campaign aide, but she鈥檚 also a crime victim, and those two facts don鈥檛 cancel each other out.
A Year After the Tree of Life Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Immigrant Racism Thrive
Keeping communities safe against hateful rhetoric will require a bold, expansive vision.
Racial Microaggressions Are Real. Here鈥檚 How to Navigate Them
Experts weigh in on ways to deal with microaggressions that don鈥檛 burden Black, Indigenous, and people of color who experience them daily.
On Reparations, Let Impacted Communities Lead the Way
Reflecting on yesterday鈥檚 grassroots demands for restitution provides solutions for today.
It鈥檚 Time for Effective Oversight of Police Violence
Would the possibility of mandatory sentencing make a police officer think twice before pulling the trigger? What about them having to forego their pensions, or pay victims鈥� families from their 401Ks?
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