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North Carolina’s reality stands in stark contrast to America 250 celebrations that idealize the state of the nation: over the past year the state legislature has worked to destroy the voting power of its students, Black communities, immigrant citizens, and rural voters.
In the autumn of 1982, residents organized inside Coley Springs Baptist Church in Warren County, North Carolina to stop the state from burying PCB-contaminated soil in their community. For six weeks, men, women, and children marched and lay down in the road in front of trucks hauling toxic waste. More than 500 people were arrested. It was from a jail cell in Warren County that the term…
Even though support for democracy efforts continues to grow, deeper funding trends and challenges call for additional analysis and discussion.
A new survey reveals the wide-ranging effects of the terminations on federal employees at the turn of the administration. This survey is a starting point for independent researchers to study what happened to the unlawfully terminated population.
When yet more children's bones were found on the grounds of a past Bureau of Indian Education school, followed by another rash of school shootings, I felt physically sick to my stomach and disgusted that all these dead children were somehow just pawns in some sort of game that I couldn't hope to understand.
The mythology of America is one of unblemished progress and triumph—a narrative amplified with renewed force as the United States continues to celebrate its 250th year. But those of us whose existence has always been a death-defying freedom struggle, propose an alternate observance—one that requires us all to reckon with the reality we are living in and the injustices that have shaped the society…
Youth-led climate groups receive under one percent of major foundation grants. The usual fix, teaching them to fundraise, misunderstands the root cause.
State legislators and local officials are holding the line on democracy—and paying for it with committee assignments, per diems, office raids, and personal safety. Philanthropy must invest in protecting them before the next attack becomes an emergency.
The Fight for $15 movement succeeded because a union made a massive, risky, long-term bet before victory seemed possible—and it’s a victory that philanthropic donors can learn from.
My Un American Spirit necklace is a spoof on the "American Spirit" cigarette brand and packaging which actually depicts a stereotypical Native smoking a "peace pipe." Yet they are selling little death dose cigarettes and none of the people who founded the company or are part of its current power structure have ever been Native American.
