Nudges, or slight changes that influence people’s behavior, can be used to encourage healthy choices. But do they help or harm marginalized groups? How can nudges drive change in a healthcare system riddled with systemic barriers for the socially and economically disenfranchised?
We are wading through hell and high water, tasked with dreaming new worlds into being while the worlds we have known fall down around us. Here, on the edge of everything, the work of cultivating hope and purpose, of anchoring people to one another, is as important now as it has ever been, at any time in human history—because without those efforts, we would be lost in the dark.
She realized there was a greater challenge awaiting her: to record the culture and the follies that had brought about the end of Western civilization.
As the world gets warmer and winter storms more severe, the most vulnerable people are dying, but not from the weather itself.
This month is Black History Month. It is also a time to remember the father of Black History Month, Carter G. Woodson.
I think of the river and the hidden life teaming under its surface, once again muddy and opaque. The sun is burning away another summer. My skin itches, and I think how homey it would be at the muddy river bottom. How silent, and how cool.
“High above, the weather dome shifts. The sky turns half a shade darker from the usual yellow.”
The US criminal legal and family welfare systems both disproportionately punish poor and Black families. A report by the Prison Policy Initiative argues they are deeply intertwined.
Following the release of The Sentencing Project’s four-part series, One in Five, the organization’s codirector of research, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, talks about the work that is left to be done to address disparities in incarceration.
Most often, Black business success, instead of following a venture capital route, adopts a path to business formation that is anchored in community.
Racial justice pledges may total $340 billion, but their impact has been limited. To change this, philanthropy and impact investors must reconsider how they use capital.
What does reparative philanthropy require? For starters, it means investing directly in Black and Native communities to rebuild these communities’ generational wealth.