In November 2009, the South African government and U.N. General Assembly declared July 18th Nelson Mandela International Day.
read moreOur diverse, multilingual country still shames and disparages those that don’t speak English.
read moreWe surveyed educators to learn how the critical race discourse is affecting their classrooms – and how you can help.
read moreIn his article “Return the National Parks to the Tribes” David Treuer reminds us that national parks are the result of Indigenous dispossession. Everglades National Park is Seminole land. Olympic National Park was created by a violation of a treaty with the Quinault tribe. The first white people to ever see what is now Yosemite National Park were members of a California militia, intent on slaughtering and driving Miwok people off the land and into reservations. “Native people need permanent, unencumbered access to our homelands,” wrote Treuer, an Ojibwe author and historian. “All 85 million acres of national-park sites should be turned over to a consortium of federally recognized tribes in the United States” (The Atlantic).
read moreNeighborhoods of color affected by redlining, historic bank and government-sponsored housing discrimination, are five degrees hotter than non-redlined neighborhoods since they have dramatically less tree cover. In Portland, OR, they’re a shocking 13 degrees warmer (NPR). Communities of color are where state and business elites dump toxic chemicals, coal-fired power plants, and chemical factories across the country. “The climate emergency will have a disproportionate impact on Black and Brown communities” (Guardian) since “the lack of equitable investment in low-income communities leaves people even more at risk for climate change impacts” (NRDC).
read moreThe recent ban on swimcaps for Black hair submerged the Olympics into the deep history of racist policies at the pool.
read moreThe borders of racial categories are malleable, contested, and change over time. But believing that demographic changes will inevitably cause the racial hierarchy to fade away ignores centuries of evidence to the contrary.
read moreNew discoveries of unmarked graves bring ongoing injustices against Indigenous communities to the present.
read moreIn this episode of the podcast, Nicole chats with Lamar Shambley about his organization and his efforts to give the next generation a global mindset. TOCA (Teens of Color Abroad) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to cultivate the next generation of globally conscious youth of color through full language immersion study abroad experiences.…
read moreThe Department of Homeland Security announced that they would start considering migrants whose cases were terminated by the Trump administration.
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