Patricia Gualinga stands serenely as chaos swirls about her. I find this petite woman with striking black and red face paint at the head of the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21, ...

Read winning essays from our fall 2018 “Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Our Revolutions,” student writing contest. For the Fall 2018 student writing competition, “Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Our Revolutions ...

Evette is a culture journalist, critic, and editor who serves as the executive editor at YES!. Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box, her middle-grade nonfiction book, was ...

This week, millions of Americans will gather in theaters to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. While for many the film is little more than big-budget Hollywood pop fare, for others the story will ...

Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill instead of money) was “a ...

A child growing up in the Costa Rican countryside is surrounded by some of the most beautiful and biodiverse landscapes in the world. The government of this tiny Central American country aims to keep ...

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I grew up by the main road through Manyatta, the slum neighborhood of Kisumu, Kenya. My mother and other women from our community struggled to put food on their own tables. But they started a feeding ...

Children are learning and playing joyfully in nature again, from suburbs in Colorado to the fringes of Chicagoland. At the beginning of the 20th century, untempered industrialization and rampant ...

Angela Davis and her sister Fania Davis were working for social justice before many of today’s activists were born. From their childhood in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, where their friends were ...

My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan. It is from the ...

When most people are introduced to abolition, they first want to know how prison-industrial-complex abolitionists propose handling violence in a world without police or prisons. These conversations ...