Human Rights

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in…

Every young person deserves the dignity and security of stable housing, and this is especially true for youth and young adults formerly in foster care.No young person should transition out of foster care without a plan for housing and […]…

Who will tell the stories that shape our future? These days, in the United States, this is a matter of fierce disagreement. On one side, a multiracial majority of people…

The vast majority of US polling locations are not fully accessible. Disabled activists are working to change that.

Just four years ago, following the murder of George Floyd, almost every college and university in the U.S. had at least one diversity, equity and inclusion – or DEI –…

Candid Blog | Discover why SAGE (Advocacy and Services for LGBTQ+ Elders) relies on a multitude of data and insights to raise visibility of the aging LGBTQ+ community and inform how they can best serve their needs.

Today, white households at the median hold six times the wealth of Black households, five times the wealth of Hispanic households, and more than 10 times the wealth of Native…

Despite important gains in the formal education of girls in the last decade and half, women in India are conspicuously missing from the workforce. The country achieved universal girls’ enrollment in primary…

The LGBTQ+ population is young and rapidly growing, possessing more than $1.4 trillion in spending power. But LGBTQ+ households are also more likely to be locked out of homeownership and its wealth-building…

“We are not making a great deal of progress in bringing women into STEM jobs in any sort of equitable numbers.”…

Robert Thomas is now serving up wheatgrass shots at his club-turned-grocery store in Houston, Texas. After the pandemic forced Thomas to shut down the club he ran for five years,…

A new opinion piece in The New York Times argues that rural America needs immigrant labor to survive and thrive. “Rural America has a growth problem. Business and industry desperately need workers, but the…