This story was originally published by Mother Jones and can be read here. Last year, on Labor Day weekend, an immigration attorney named Cooper Richardson spent her Saturday calling the Phoenix-area ...

But celebration—without repair—rings hollow. We believe that reparations are what justice looks like in the 21st century. As lawyers for the movement, we will defend these programs, not because ...

Reparations forces the question the United States of America has avoided since its founding: What does justice require after a government has caused, sanctioned, or benefited from brutality against ...

In recent years, many of the rights and protections that women have fought to secure over the past half-century have come under sustained, coordinated attack. Gains once considered settled are being ...

This story was originally reported by Marissa Martinez of The 19th. Meet Marissa and read more of their reporting on gender, politics and policy. This week, the Senate will take up the SAVE America ...

With publisher permission, this article was adapted from a more extensive journal article, “Recover, Explore, Practice: The Transformative Potential of Sabbaticals,” published in December 2023 by the ...

Consider this familiar pattern, easily recognizable in cities around the United States today: A group of well-meaning urban planners, city leaders, conservationists, and businesses restore an urban ...

When it comes to the board’s role in staff oversight, many like to point out that the board has exactly one employee: the chief executive. While true in many ways, this sentiment obscures the fact ...

How can philanthropy effectively support narratives of liberation? As people who traverse the interconnected areas of narrative and philanthropy, this question has been at the center of our work for ...

In emergency management and disaster response, a common refrain is “all disasters start and end locally.” In the first couple of hours or even days after a disaster hits, neighbors rescue neighbors, ...

For justice-centered leaders, there is a stubborn dichotomy between our genuine commitment to equity, inclusion, and alignment in our organizations on the one hand, and our continuing self-diagnosis ...