Even as students all over the country are subject to mass shooting drills in schools, where they have every right to feel safe, due to a 20-year-old NRA-backed amendment there has been no federally funded public health research on the topic of gun violence. The Arnold Foundation is now stepping up with a leadership grant of $20 million to make that research happen.
As student organizers in the anti-gun violence movement have learned, just saying you want to engage in multiracial organizing doesn’t mean you’ll achieve it.
Those who are thrust into leadership roles in social movements face a difficult balancing act: Maintaining a self-reflective attitude, even when goaded by personal attacks, is critical.
How do you build a moment into a movement? While movements can flourish for idiosyncratic reasons, past social movements offer us some useful guideposts.
As youths across the US demonstrate their determination to be a part of the civic conversation, civil rights groups like the ACLU are stepping in where schools have left gaps to educate students about their rights in a protest environment.
Today’s new, more activist form of corporate social responsibility is leading corporations to weigh in on social issues even when doing so may create a backlash.
In an op-ed, a business writer calls on credit card issuers to stop financing automatic rifle purchases. It could be a useful step, but is it enough?
With eight school-based shootings in 2018 already (and counting), it is time to say “enough is enough,” as survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland remind us.
This California city may become the proving ground for some big ideas to transform our economic assumptions.
In the days leading up to Snapchat’s IPO, the sales team tried to corner the nation’s best funded anti-gun-violence nonprofit into paying a huge sum to prevent NRA advertising during an event on its site.
