Climate activist Niria Garcia stands amid the burned-out remains of her father's home in Phoenix, Ore. His house and the surrounding trailer park were destroyed in a September 2020 wildfire. Garcia ...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen is also a nonfiction writer whose essays frequently have a heavy helping of identity politics. Here he is in a piece from The New York Times in ...

Lynching never actually went away. The powers that be have enshrined it into state power. Just in the last four months, George Floyd, Sean Reed, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and Tony McDade were ...

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If your only image of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is one of the student activists propelled by the media to the center of the March For Our Lives and Never Again gun violence ...

As chief development officer at a national nonprofit organization, I’ve been asked by a prospective donor, who assumed I was an assistant, if she could talk to my boss. “I am the boss” was my response ...

Hear San Francisco housing activist Kristina Lee and Los Angeles immigrant rights fighter Yolanda Alaniz put forth solutions to racist police violence and the COVID-19 crisis. Join them in a ...