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Elemental, and COVID-19

How Air Pollution Exposes America's Racial Disparities

‘Just living here, I’m 2 times more likely to get cancer in my lifetime’ — This Pittsburgh-based environmental activist is exposing how air pollution is intrinsically linked to racial disparities in America.
Elemental, and COVID-19

Farmlands Threatened by Flooding Again Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

Farmlands in the U.S. like Calvin Head’s are being threatened by flooding amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts say the climate crisis is partly to blame.
Chicago CRED

Rev. Craig Nash Speaks Out About Policing in Black Communities

‘The fear and the mistrust goes so far back, and I almost wanna say it’s in our DNA’ — Community leader Rev. Craig Nash is speaking out about violent policing in Black communities, like his own in Chicago
Immigration

Why This Musician Needs DACA

‘It means that we can breathe a little bit easier now’ — Here’s what the Supreme Court ruling in favor of DACA means for plaintiffs like Emmanuel Ajomale
Immigration

Resources for DACA Recipients and Allies

Learn more about the Supreme Court Decision and support DACA Recipients
COVID-19, and Wellness

Resources for Wellness

A list of resources including tools for crisis support and intervention, managing anxiety, mindfulness and movement, ways to share art and stories, support for children and teens, and resources in Spanish.
COVID-19, and Community Advocacy

Resources to Support Your Community

During this unprecedented time, one of the greatest challenges we face is the way social distancing negates our natural impulse to reach out and help one another.
Education, and COVID-19

Resources for Remote Learning

As we begin to mobilize solutions and confront challenges together, the significance of our connections with one another—as individuals, families, and communities—becomes ever more clear.
Equal Justice Initiative

A History of Racial Injustice Calendar: On This Day

Five Days of Racial Violence Leave 38 Dead and 1,000 Black Families Homeless in Chicago
Equal Justice Initiative

A History of Racial Injustice Calendar: On This Day

Missing Civil Rights Workers Found Dead in Mississippi
Equal Justice Initiative

A History of Racial Injustice Calendar: On This Day

Black Workers Sue Memphis Cotton Gin for Racial Discrimination
Equal Justice Initiative

A History of Racial Injustice Calendar: On This Day

After Generations of Inaction, U.S. Government Enacts Voting Rights Act
Dial Fellows

How to reimagine — not just reform — our criminal legal system

In his book, Usual Cruelty, civil-rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis questions the underlying assumptions of our criminal legal system in hopes of spurring — not just reform — but a true reimagining of justice in the U.S.
Emerson Collective Fellows

A new book explores the undocumented experience in all its complexity

In The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio dismantles tired tropes about the undocumented community.
Dial Fellows

COVID-19 is a dire threat to the vulnerable in jails and prisons. Here’s what we can do about it.

Civil-rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis discusses the life-threatening danger that COVID-19 poses to the millions of people in U.S. prisons and jails, and how his organization, Civil Rights Corps, is responding.
Dial Fellows

Lessons from Rwanda for COVID-19

Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s former Minister of Health, shares her experience rebuilding the country’s health care system and her insights on an equitable response to a pandemic.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Superblue

A new enterprise dedicated to experiential art, to launch first venue in Miami in December.

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Murals in Oakland, CA

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