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How Do We Make City Streets Safer?

How Do We Make City Streets Safer?

Car accidents and violent police incidents have made L.A. streets among the deadliest in the nation. One organization is advocating for solutions.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
ACLU Sues Montana Over Anti-Trans Law

ACLU Sues Montana Over Anti-Trans Law

Keegan Medrano, policy director at the ACLU of Montana, speaks with 猫咪社区! Racial Justice and Civil Liberties Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on Rising Up With Sonali about the Montana bill banning gender-affirming treatment for minors.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
A Remedy for Corruption on the High Court

A Remedy for Corruption on the High Court

Justice Clarence Thomas鈥檚 newly revealed dealings likely broke the law. Amid calls for his resignation are demands to expand the court.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Turmoil in Tennessee Makes Case for Multiracial Democracy

Turmoil in Tennessee Makes Case for Multiracial Democracy

For 鈥淩ising Up with Sonali,鈥 猫咪社区! Racial Justice editor Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Lisa Sherman Luna, Executive Director of Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition Votes, and DaMareo Cooper, Co-Executive Director of Center for Popular Democracy Action.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Transphobia and Allyship on Trans Day of Visibility

Transphobia and Allyship on Trans Day of Visibility

For 鈥淩ising Up with Sonali,鈥 猫咪社区! Racial Justice editor Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Carl Charles, senior attorney in the Southern Regional Office of Lambda Legal; Ebony Harper, founder and executive director of California TRANScends; and Maebe A. Girl, a congressional candidate running for California鈥檚 30th Congressional District.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Closing the Gender Wage Gap

Closing the Gender Wage Gap

The pay gap between men and women has stubbornly persisted for two decades. Here鈥檚 how to close it.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Ohio Derailment Sparks Renewed Calls to Nationalize Rail

Ohio Derailment Sparks Renewed Calls to Nationalize Rail

For 鈥淩ising Up with Sonali,鈥 猫咪社区! Racial Justice editor Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Carl Rosen, General President of United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, and Marilee Taylor, 34-year veteran retired locomotive engineer and member of Railroad Workers United.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Why Harriet Tubman Belongs on the $20 Bill

Why Harriet Tubman Belongs on the $20 Bill

In a new book detailing the context of race and democracy that frames the reasons why Harriet Tubman and not, say, Andrew Jackson, belongs on the bill, author Clarence Lusane takes us on a critically important historical tour.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Why Reparations Isn鈥檛 Just About Money

Why Reparations Isn鈥檛 Just About Money

A new report, A Dream in Our Name, by Liberation Ventures examines how changing anti-Black narratives and reducing the racial wealth gap are central to the project of reparations.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Transformative Justice: Thriving Forward Together

Transformative Justice: Thriving Forward Together

Transformative justice can form the basis for deep solutions to racial and gender-based injustices, mass incarceration, immigrant abuses, the climate emergency, and more.
Sonali Kolhatkar |
Inconvenient Identity: Magnus鈥 Story

Inconvenient Identity: Magnus鈥 Story

Magnus has a heartbreaking conversation with their mom as she dices onions. In this video, created in a filmmaking workshop led by Outside the Frame and Oregon State University, Magnus tries to make
Jonathan Garcia |
Their Love: Nat鈥檚 Story

Their Love: Nat鈥檚 Story

Nat, a nonbinary Latinx young person, experiences oppression, xenophobia and misgendering from their own family. Their mother has a spiritual experience that reveals the importance of honoring their child鈥檚 nonbinary
Jonathan Garcia |
Giving Tree: Michelle鈥檚 Story

Giving Tree: Michelle鈥檚 Story

In her journey on foot from Honduras to the United States, Michelle encounters family rejection, transphobia, and border patrol. In this video, created in a filmmaking workshop led by Outside the
Jonathan Garcia |
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