White supremacy language has entered the mainstream media and nonprofit conversations, but talking about the problem more explicitly doesn’t solve it. NPQ senior editor Cyndi Suarez illustrates the gap between conversation and action, and challenges nonprofits to put their power where their mouth is.
A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers warns that not only is socialism bad, but it also causes pickup trucks to cost more in Scandinavia.
Good leadership is situational. Sometimes consensus is called for, but what if the institution’s consensus is governed by a non-representative group of overseers? Sometimes, you may just have to step out in front and risk something.
A growing number of US states and cities celebrate Indigenous People’s Day to honor the original inhabitants of our land. But the United States did not celebrate Columbus Day as a federal holiday until 1937. The story behind it is worth a look.
The containment of prisoner activism is derived from a nearly fifty-year-old playbook, and it is generally effective because the rest of us allow it.
The connective tissue between two ads that ran more than a generation apart says much about the staying power of the Black feminist movement, which white progressives have often given less than a second thought.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: “There is no single ‘correct’ strategy for leveraging digital media into movement power. There is, however, a set of practices that, when properly instituted, helps activist organizations adapt to the rhythms of the digital age,” writes David Karpf in this discussion of activism in today’s media landscape.
On the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, a statue that was gifted to the university by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913 came down.
At a national gathering of hundreds of advocates for a more democratic economy, a call is made to link social movements to institutions that can provide the infrastructure to support a more democratic economic system.
Since November 2016, social movements have been on the rise in the US, with four times as many people participating in demonstrations in 2017 or 2018 than attended either Trump or Clinton rallies. The electoral impact of this shift, however, has yet to be determined.
