This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new webinar series, Celebrating Indigenous Women Chefs, explores ancestral knowledge, wisdom, and recipes from Native tribes across the United States. Featuring speakers from urban areas and reservations, the series is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The fight to save our planet should be about ensuring a long and sustainable future — for everyone. However, as the coronavirus has spread across America, it has laid bare…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools. Yet as King put it in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Poverty rates are almost double the national average in areas surrounding streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., according to our recent study, and educational attainment is much lower. Our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic posed excessive hardship in cities like Flint that were already dealing with structural inequalities and extreme health and wealth disparities. In March, Flint saw tremendous racial disparities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Historically Black colleges saw a significant uptick in donations last year, and several of the incoming president’s campaign proposals pledged them additional funding. Higher education experts say these schools are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the U.S., millions of people lack reliable and affordable water, transportation, energy, and broadband access. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought these underlying infrastructure failures into sharp relief; for Americans who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sharon Austin, University of Florida On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the descendants of enslaved Africans in the United States, entrepreneurship represents more than just owning a business and pursuing the proverbial American Dream. Instead, the ability for Black people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I invite donors to act as boldly as the Black and brown women whose bodies are the front lines of change. In Georgia, long before the 2020 elections were part of the national news…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What is wealth? Wealth is more than money and financial assets. Critical to the accumulation and sustainability of wealth is power and agency; a sense of control over one’s life…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The deep wounds of systemic racism have plagued communities across this country for generations, and in 2020, the largest response in this nation’s history made it explicitly clear that we…