This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared COVID-19 hits communities of color the hardest—and extensive evidence backs this up—communities of color are not receiving the aid they need. Health officials say the lack…
Recent events, from the tragic murder of George Floyd to the shocking attack on the U.S. Capitol, have sparked a seismic shift in society’s acknowledgement of the need for transformational…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few months ago, I was talking at a conference about what race, equity, diversity, and inclusion look like in every day practices. “These concepts have been like coconut water,” I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Texas, facing record-low temperatures this February, lost control of the power supply, leaving millions without access to electricity. But the crisis was not equally felt, exposing inequities in the energy system that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’ve seen the research. The fraction of philanthropic support that reaches Indian Country and Indigenous-led organizations has remained largely unchanged for decades, while institutional philanthropy has come to rely heavily on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The most common refrain in the U.S. today is that we are more divided than we’ve been in generations — not only along partisan lines, but also across racial, religious,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During his confirmation hearing in February, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland pledged that his first order of business would be to “supervise the prosecution of white supremacists and others who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gibrielys Delgado was overwhelmed and needed help. The sophomore at Cleveland’s Max Hayes High School grew up in Puerto Rico in a Spanish-speaking family and moved to Cleveland only a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s a lovely expression that many of us in the Black community use when we want to repair strained relationships with each other; it’s an expression that always moves me…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To ensure that a post-pandemic recovery does not leave low-income and Black and Latinx communities even further behind, the Chicago Community Trust recently launched Together We Rise: For an Equitable and Just Recovery.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One in every 645 Black people in the United States can expect to die from COVID-19, per data from February 2021. Blacks are 2.1 times more likely than whites to die…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the US education system was created more than 150 years ago, fewer career paths required college degrees, the student population was far less diverse, and antiquated and destructive ideas…