By Darrell Jackson To survive in prison, inmates usually accept a “convict code” that demands toughness and makes us wary of others. To thrive in prison, I learned to embrace organizing for social change and…
Duke University didn’t inform public about lead in Durham parks By: Lisa Sorg Soil at three Durham parks—Walltown, East End and East Durham (and presumably a fourth, Lyon Park)—contain levels of lead as much as…
Commentary by Tapti Sen I am from a disappearing nation. My country, Bangladesh, is one of several at risk of becoming submerged partially or completely by rising sea levels caused by climate change in the…
University of Chicago Law School and ACLU produce groundbreaking report Incarcerated workers generate billions of dollars’ worth of goods and services annually but are paid pennies per hour without proper training or opportunity to…
A Q&A On Local 79’s “Real Re-Entry” Campaign in New York City Han Lu interviews Bernard Callegari Starting in the spring of 2021, the National Employment Law Project teamed up with New York’s Construction &…
By Stan Cox Along the South River, in the southwest corner of DeKalb County, Georgia, lies a forested area of about 300 acres that has been owned by the nearby City of Atlanta for over…
By Jessica Corbett On April 6, Equal Rights Amendment supporters slammed the vast majority of U.S. Senate Republicans for filibustering a resolution that would make the 100-year-old measure the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The…
NC advocates, policymakers discuss solutions. By Jennifer Fernandez Everyone here knew the data: Black women are three times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than white women. And they knew the cause: hard-to-solve…
By Chuck Bell A liberatory or emancipatory approach to eliminating medical debt begins with truly hearing the voices of one hundred million Americans who are struggling with bills they can’t afford to pay. As a…
Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets? By Sonali Kolhatkar The year 2022 was the deadliest year on record in the United States for fatalities at the hands of law enforcement. According to the Washington…