This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A look at 48,000 conventional monuments in the United States reveals trends in who or what gets memorialized with a statue and who or what does not. In October 2021,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Close to a hundred Afghan Shiite Muslims were killed in attacks on mosques in October 2021. One such attack took place on Oct. 15, when a group of suicide bombers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black youth in the U.S. experience more illness, poverty, and discrimination than their white counterparts. These issues put them at higher risk for depression and other mental health problems. Yet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 60 years ago, the EU introduced the principle of equal pay for equal work for men and women. Yet, a gender pay gap—the difference between the average gross…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “The Covid-19 pandemic was expected to drive many families into hunger as jobs were lost and supply chains were interrupted. The prediction held true, but mostly for minorities,” reports The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the ACLU was established in 1920, the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution had never been fully tested in the courts, and only through persistent and broad public activism have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. U.S. Gross Domestic Product is one of the most-cited economic statistics and is regularly regarded as shorthand for measuring the economic outcomes of the entire nation. Although it once represented…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 30 percentage-point homeownership gap between Black and white households is wider today than it was in 1960, when explicit housing discrimination was still legal. Applicants of color experience higher…
In the sixth episode of Giving Done Right season two, CEP’s Phil and Grace talk with Dr. Elizabeth Alexander, poet and president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Elizabeth delves into how to apply a social and racial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two years ago, in September 2019, the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund awarded its first grants to organizations working to build more inclusive economies for immigrants and refugees in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the six years since the first Fortune Change the World list was published, and particularly over the past 18 months, there have been increased calls for the world to reimagine capitalism and for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. WIRED magazine editor Chris Anderson declared “The End of Theory” in 2008, arguing that “big data” had rendered traditional scientific theory and testing irrelevant. Even for the often-triumphalist magazine, Anderson’s…