Human Rights

Today, the CUNY School of Medicine announced that it was awarded $19.3 million from the National Institutes of Health, the University’s largest-ever National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, to create…

The Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC), a think tank dedicated to producing research that highlights economic opportunities for growth, today unveiled its latest report, “2024 LDC U.S. Latino Voter Report™: The Ever-Evolving U.S.…

As Election Day looms closer, nonprofits are leveraging resources to galvanize nonpartisan, low-propensity voters in hard to reach communities across New York City. The GoVoteNYC funder collaborative, hosted at The New York…

Activist Camille Bennett never backs down from a fight, despite her life being in danger. She’s endured racist and violent threats in rural Alabama, a part of a life she’s…

A new report from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law warns that 210,800 transgender people in the U.S. could face barriers to casting their ballots because of…

A growing number of gender-nonconforming and transgender people are experiencing homelessness in the U.S., a trend that seems baffling because public polling indicates LGBTQ+ individuals are more socially accepted than…

“As I reflect on the lessons from New Seneca Village, one of the things that really stands out to me is that my body…is home. My body tells me when I’m…

The number of young people experiencing homelessness in Travis County, which includes most of Austin, has risen substantially in the past four years, according to numbers from a nonprofit that…

A little over two weeks after Hurricane Helene turned living rooms into murky, debris-filled pools, washed away homes, and caused upward of $50 billion in damage, dozens of renters and…

Philadelphia Youth Poet Laureate Malaya Ulan, a junior at Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, knows what it feels like to be young and overlooked in 2024. With the upcoming election…

Sabrina Friday scanned the room at Mother’s Nest, an organization in Macon that provides baby supplies, training, food and housing to mothers in need, and she asked how many planned…

As principal of Dunaire Elementary School, Sean Deas has seen firsthand the struggles faced by children living in extended-stay hotels. About 10% of students at his school, just east of…