Racial “affinity classes” in US schools draw praise—and lawsuits.
Can Racial “Affinity Classes” Bridge Educational Gaps?
Elder Tek
“The mayor scowled at the teenagers in her office. Heads hung low, they awaited the reprimand.”
To My Gaea, a Letter You Will Never Read
“I water you with tears even though I know better. How weak is the human spirit—my spirit—but not yours, dear Gaea, not yours.”
How Strict Abortion Laws Funnel Pregnant People Deeper into Poverty
Strict abortion laws in Texas are costly and funnel parents and their children deeper into poverty.
Winter 2023 Digital Issue
The articles within NPQ’s winter 2023 health justice issues asks “How do we build a world based in love?,” and put the answers into practice, perhaps we will find ourselves in the future looking through that doorway onto a very different landscape from the one we are looking onto now.
California Environmental Justice Organizers Are Writing the Future of Climate Plans
I suffer from climate grief and anxiety too, like our youth, who are bombarded with apocalyptic stories. And I feel more alive in community with organizers and artists, choosing to write our destiny. I’m grateful to be part of the leadership of the California Environmental Justice Alliance… to make these climate policies take root and bloom on the ground so we are able to weather the storms.
How the America the Beautiful Initiative, the Inflation Reduction Act, and Philanthropy Are Effecting a Just Transition in Native American and Alaska Native Communities
As Indigenous people, it is in our nature to be self-reliant. The average American either doesn’t know or forgets that Native American Tribes are sovereign nations here on Turtle Island—the so-called United States of America.
Deinfluencers Versus Climate Change
Amid the rapid rise of the influencer economy, a group is pushing back: encouraging followers not to shop in the hope it may help the planet.
For Moses
“Someday, things would start again, we thought, but we would not see it.”
’Til the Rivers Come Home
“We had never before witnessed a dry season so vicious—one that made all the wells like bone and the sand fiercely hot. That year, our river didn’t come home.”
In Philadelphia, a Ban on Ski Masks Is Called Racist
Civil liberties advocates say a proposed ban on ski masks in Philadelphia could be used to target youth of color.
Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the very fabric of society. With it comes potentially harmful impacts on the economic, political, and interpersonal aspects of everyday lives that further exacerbate inequities for marginalized people.