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Indigenous scientists are hurrying to learn what they can about intact old-growth forests before they are gone. Biologist Teresa Ryan has seen a lot of clear-cuts and loaded logging trucks. But this ...
When Renee Lau, a special projects coordinator at the trans-led housing and wellness center Baltimore Safe Haven, transitioned at the age of 63, she lost everything. “My marriage fell apart,” she says ...
Taylor Young has never wanted to be a mom. From the time the now 27-year-old began dating, she experienced persistent anxiety around the thought of getting pregnant in Ohio, a Republican-controlled ...
Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Marroquin—who grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s—worried that speaking ...
Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe. “We heard there are some antifa over here!” The shout came from a group of ...
Faced with the spread of militarized police training facilities known as "cop cities," grassroots activists are taking the call to #DefundPolice to cities nationwide. On June 11, a week after a police ...
Jose Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from his small backpack to inspect a clump of deep green ...
When I was in middle school, at a majority-white public school in Montana, I was given an assignment to interview a grandparent about their childhood. The questions were designed to help us better ...
At 2 p.m. every Wednesday, about 15 to 20 women who form a Mahila Panchayat, or Women’s Council, gather in a modest, dimly lit room in the Jehangirpuri area of the Indian capital city New Delhi, to ...
Nicole Young argues that Black people’s conscription into America’s endless war-making machine only ensures they will never be safe. “Black people, we were never patriots; we were pragmatists,” a ...