This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has been devastating for many neighborhood businesses, with shutdowns, capacity limitations, and ongoing health fears chipping away at revenue. Nationwide, the pandemic is estimated to have shuttered 200,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. s the nation’s Latino student population continues to grow, a nonprofit advocacy group this week called for a commitment to increasing the numbers of Latino teachers and administrators in the nation’s schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Being outdoors not only offers physical and mental benefits, but it is a space where humans can enjoy recreating regardless of their physical ability, religious belief, gender preference, or ethnic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just east of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska sits Prince William Sound: an inlet full of tidewater glaciers spanning 3,800 miles of coastline and flanked by the jagged…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers live at the intersection of forced global migration, racism, displacement from their countries, violence and civil war, and climate change. LGBTQ Black migrants face…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Native Americans were put into a status of guardianship due to a system of federal and local policies developed in the early 1900s. A lawyer explains this sordid history in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Centuries of systemic racism and everyday discrimination in the U.S. have left a major mental health burden on African American communities, and the past few years have dealt especially heavy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food is a powerful part of community and medicine. It has the potential to build connections, elicit nostalgia, spark joy, mark celebration, and promote healing. It also plays a role…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Higher rates of COVID-19 infection among essential and frontline workers put a spotlight on underinsured laborers. Essential workers—those who perform a range of jobs and services that are necessary for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a child, Preston J. Arrow-weed lived near a stretch of the Colorado River that traced a wide, sweeping curve through the Fort Yuma-Quechan Reservation, which straddles the border of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The number of people killed by police officers in the U.S. has been massively underreported in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As students across the country wrestled with pandemic stress last winter, sophomore Nathaniel Martinez logged on to a virtual retreat. Forty mostly Black and Latino teens in Chicago were getting…