This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Living on the streets means constantly being vulnerable – to the elements, to illness and hunger, and to the very group who should be there to protect you: law enforcement.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. America’s alarming racial disparities have come to the forefront of our national consciousness in recent years, at least partly thanks to the activism of the Black Lives Matter movement and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rain came hard and fast early on the morning of June 23, 2016. By 2 p.m., water was knee deep in Bill Bell’s appliance store on Main Street in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around 600,000 people are released annually from the U.S.’s sprawling prisons network. Many face considerable barriers as a result of their convictions when it comes to essentials in life, like…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many nonprofits, especially those with local focuses, it might not seem like a new federal administration will make a day-to-day difference for them. In truth, a change at the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In November 2019, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations published 150 pages of evidence that the government of China has been systematically, aggressively, clandestinely and strategically…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As debates over masks in schools reach a fever pitch — with Texas, Iowa and Utah late last week banning face covering mandates outright — over half of all U.S.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In some states, seventeen-year-old youths are automatically prosecuted as adults. In other states, certain offenses automatically require adult prosecution, and some states give prosecutors and the courts discretion to try…
Kim Foxx made history when she was elected to be the first African American woman to lead the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Illinois. Chanda connected with Kim to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a world on fire, in the grips of a global health pandemic and social crisis, and at the brim of a steep economic downfall, we all agree on the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a child growing up on his family’s subsistence farm in Puebla, Mexico, Abel Luna loved helping to plant corn and other crops. But in 2001, when he turned 13,…