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CNNFrom Katrina to Ida, what has Louisiana learned?
Mitch Landrieu, founder and president of E Pluribus Unum, former mayor of New Orleans, former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, shares his thoughts on lessons from past hurricanes.
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Equity & JusticeStacey Abrams Fights For a Fair Count In The 2020 Census
‘The census delivers financial resources and political power, but only to those who are counted.’ — Stacey Abrams is doing everything in her power to make sure that every community gets counted in the 2020 census.
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Equity & JusticeCan Donald Trump Actually Delay the 2020 Presidential Election?
Joe Biden is worried that Trump will try to delay the presidential election. Trump likely can’t do that — but that doesn’t mean voting will go off without a hitch in November.
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Equity & JusticeMississippi Case Challenges Lifetime Felon Voting Ban
This foster dad and Little League coach is fighting to restore voting rights in Mississippi for people with previous felony convictions like him.
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Equity & JusticeThis Teen Wants to Let 17 Year Olds Vote in the Primary Election
This soon-to-be 18-year-old will be eligible to vote in the November general election, but has no say in who the Democratic nominee will be. Now she’s fighting to change the law.
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Equity & JusticeHistorian Carol Anderson on How Voter Suppression Targets Students & Black People
From voter ID laws to gerrymandering, this author breaks down all the voter suppression tactics that keep students and Black people from casting their ballots.
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Equity & JusticeThis Restaurant Serves ‘Immigrant Food’ in Trump’s Backyard
This restaurant's unique menu lets customers buy lunch and donate to immigrant rights groups at the same time.
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Social Justice
Demo Day '19: Goodr
Since its founding in 2017, Goodr has helped businesses donate over one million pounds of surplus food to nonprofits that serve the people who need it.
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Equity & JusticeYour Vote is a Threat to Power
‘The truth is…that voter disenfranchisement is much more insidious these days.’ — Andrew Gillum wants voters to know that they pose a threat to the powerful by showing up to the polls
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Equity & JusticeMitch Landrieu on Why Racism Is the Most Troubling Issue in America
This former New Orleans mayor traveled to 13 states in the South to better understand racial injustice and white privilege — after speaking to hundreds of people, he launched an initiative to confront America's 'original sin'.
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Equity & JusticeStockton, CA Mayor Michael Tubbs on Investing in Young People
‘Talent and intellect are universal, but…resources and opportunities are not.’ — Here’s what one of the youngest mayors in the nation is doing to combat economic inequality and empower young people in his city.
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Equity & JusticeDeo Niyizonkiza Built Health Initiative in Burundi Village After Surviving Genocide
Deo Niyizonkiza survived civil war in Burundi and escaped genocide in Rwanda. Now he’s helping communities heal from the traumas of war by expanding access to life-saving health care.
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Equity & Justice
Athletes + Activism
Today’s star athletes are making headlines not only for their athletic achievements, but for their dedication to fighting injustice.
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The Trace and Miami HeraldSince Parkland
Teen reporters tell the stories of children who can no longer tell their own.
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Equity & JusticeAnna Deavere Smith on Exploring the American Psyche
In Notes from the Field, the award-winning actress and playwright embodies characters with up-close perspectives on this country’s greatest shames.
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The Economist
The Real Scandal of Voting Fraud
For The Economist’s special “World in 2019” issue, Laurene Powell Jobs writes about the disturbing trend of efforts to disenfranchise voters.
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Equity & JusticeHow Chef José Andrés Delivered Meals—and Hope—to Puerto Rico
One year after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico, we look back at the story of the chefs who took action.
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Equity & Justice
Photo Essay: Chicago CRED Joins March For Our Lives in DC
Among the massive crowd at the historic March For Our Lives event in the Spring were dozens of men from Chicago CRED.
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Equity & Justice
To Tear Down Racism, Build More Memorials
Equal Justice Initiative is building a productive model for confronting America's history of racial violence.
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Environment, and Equity & JusticeUsing Solar to Restore Economic Sovereignty on Tribal Lands
GRID Alternatives is helping the next generation of tribal leaders transform their communities—economically and environmentally—through renewable energy.
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Equity & Justice
How Thread is Weaving Community in Baltimore
Thread's unique mentoring model is building relationships across traditional boundaries in Baltimore.
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Equity & Justice
Baltimore Corps: Pushing Social Change in Charm City
Baltimore Corps is enacting change-and challenge perception about the city.
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Equity & Justice
LocoL's Recipe for Nourishing Communities
With healthy fast food and employment, a new restaurant chain aims to uplift underserved communities.
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Equity & Justice
Blood in the Soil: How Equal Justice Initiative Confronts our History of Racial Violence
College Track students from across the country traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to participate in Equal Justice Initiative's soil collection project.
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We The Action
Change LGBT+ people's lives by representing them against discriminatory acts
Volunteer for this project! Lambda Legal would love your help with this project.
People in food deserts across the U.S. lack access to healthy food. We begin to address injustice when we interrupt this cycle, educate communities, and identify ways to expand access.
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Social Justice
Demo Day '19: Goodr
Since its founding in 2017, Goodr has helped businesses donate over one million pounds of surplus food to nonprofits that serve the people who need it.
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Fast Company
Sweetgreen is redesigning school lunches to make them more healthy–and more fun
By next year, kids in 50 schools will get to design their own fresh, locally sourced lunches, Sweetgreen-style.
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New York Times
Op-Ed: Changing School Lunches
Schools and their cafeterias are fighting an uphill battle working with constrained budgets and trying to compete with junk food for students’ affections.
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Forbes
Urban School Food Alliance And FoodCorps Partner For Better School Meals
The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of the nation’s 11 largest urban school districts, and FoodCorps, that focuses on building healthy school food environments, announced this week a partnership between the two nonprofits.
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The Washington Post
FoodCorps steps in to help schools do what they couldn’t otherwise afford
FoodCorps targets a key weakness in the growing and ever-more-fashionable effort to teach children where food comes from and wean them off french fries and pizza in the cafeteria.
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Equity & JusticeIs Food Education the Key to Building Healthier, More Equitable Communities?
FoodCorps service member Emily Reckard on training the next generation of food justice advocates.
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Equity & Justice
Equitable Food Initiative Gets in the Weeds to Improve Labor Conditions
Emerson Collective’s Environment and Food Access Director Ariane Bertrand sat down with EFI’s Executive Director to talk about how better conditions for agriculture workers mean safer food for all of us.
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Equity & Justice
How Chef José Andrés Delivered Meals—and Hope—to Puerto Rico
One year after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Puerto Rico, we look back at the story of the chefs who took action.
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Equity & Justice
Seeds of Change: Farming Hope's Solution to Homelessness in San Francisco
Farming Hope flips the concept of a soup kitchen on its head by employing homeless individuals to produce...
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Equity & Justice
LocoL's Recipe for Nourishing Communities
With healthy fast food and employment, a new restaurant chain aims to uplift underserved communities.
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Equity & Justice
Uprooting Food Injustice in West Oakland
West Oakland has a food access problem, but City Slickers Farms is making sure residents are never far from a community farm.
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Equity & Justice
Growing Kids’ Appetites for Healthy Food
In Navajo Nation, FoodCorps is helping kids understand the importance of growing and eating healthy food.
We are deeply committed to encouraging active civic participation at every level. This cornerstone of our democracy is both a right and an obligation.
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Equity & JusticeDemocracy’s Frontlines
These poll workers are ready to pass the baton of civic duty and ignite action across new generations and communities.
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Facing South
Woke Vote: new film documents change in the South one vote at a time
DeJuana invited us to Birmingham in February 2018 for the first major gathering of Woke Vote supporters since the election, a conference that swelled with new allies inspired by the organizers' startling accomplishment.
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AL.com
After raising $2 million to 'Woke' black millennial voters last year, Birmingham native targeting 2018 elections
If you've never heard of Woke Vote, it's probably because you're not African American. Or a millennial.
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AL.com
Actor Don Cheadle, in Birmingham for Woke Vote, 2018 Magic City Classic: ‘We can’t sit on our hands’
Sincerity doesn’t need a script.
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The Atlantic
How Grassroots Organizers Got Black Voters to the Polls in Alabama
The large African American turnout in the Senate election was the result of careful, deliberate work—and offers Democrats a roadmap for 2018.
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New York Times
Being Poor Can Mean Losing a Driver’s License. Not Anymore in Tennessee.
Millions of Americans have had their driver’s licenses taken away not because they got drunk and got behind the wheel, or because they caused an accident and hurt someone: They lost their licenses because they were too poor to pay fines.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Mystics Give the Entire Region Cause for Celebration
The Mystics clinched the final game of the best-of-five series over the Connecticut Sun with a 89-78 win at Entertainment and Sports Arena.
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IAmVoter.com
Text VOTER to 26797
is a nonpartisan movement that aims to create a cultural shift around voting and civic engagement by unifying around a central truth: our democracy works best when we all participate.
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The Washington Post
How to redesign the debates for our current political climate
When normal life gets upended, most of us try to pretend it isn’t happening.
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Equity & Justice
Anna Deavere Smith on Exploring the American Psyche
In Notes from the Field, the award-winning actress and playwright embodies characters with up-close perspectives on this country’s greatest shames.
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The Economist
The Real Scandal of Voting Fraud
For The Economist’s special “World in 2019” issue, Laurene Powell Jobs writes about the disturbing trend of efforts to disenfranchise voters.
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Equity & Justice
Inside Out/Vote: Celebrating the Power of the Vote
The Inside Out Project, a global initiative from French artist JR, hit the road this summer to inspire, educate, and celebrate the power of the vote.
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Equity & Justice
Witness the Power of Civic Engagement
Since November 2016, America has seen a surge in citizen activation. In all 50 states, people have organized more than 10,000 marches, protests, and activations to raise their voices about the issues that matter most.
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Equal Justice Initiative
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.
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Equity & Justice
Photo Essay: Chicago CRED Joins March For Our Lives in DC
Among the massive crowd at the historic March For Our Lives event in the Spring were dozens of men from Chicago CRED.
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Equity & Justice
To Tear Down Racism, Build More Memorials
Equal Justice Initiative is building a productive model for confronting America's history of racial violence.
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Equity & Justice
Lighting the Fuse of Civic Engagement
A fellowship program matches locals with public interest projects, promoting civic engagement in urban areas.
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Education, and Equity & JusticeStudents Go Door to Door to Elect Better School Boards
How Students For Education Reform is rallying communities for local elections...
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Equity & Justice
Bryan Stevenson: You Gotta Vote!
Thinking of sitting out this year's presidential election? Think again.
The U.S. criminal justice system was conceived of to support the process of redemption, renewal, and rehabilitation. Our policies and practices must reflect this opportunity.
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The Marshall Project
The Hardest Lesson on Tier 2C
Can a violent adult jail teach kids to love school?
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New York Times
In Fight Over Bail’s Fairness, a Sheriff Joins the Critics
A growing body of evidence shows that even a brief detention before trial can disrupt lives and livelihoods, make case outcomes worse and increase the likelihood that the defendant will commit future crimes.
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New York Times
His Clients Weren’t Complaining. But the Judge Said This Lawyer Worked Too Hard.
Can a lawyer work too hard to defend a client? That all depends on who is paying the bill, a new lawsuit argues.
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Houston Chronicle
Harris County reaches landmark settlement over ‘unconstitutional’ bail system
A long-awaited settlement in Harris County’s historic bail lawsuit won tentative approval Friday from all parties, setting up a possible end to a system that kept poor people behind bars on low-level charges while those with money could walk free.
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Slate
For an Increasing Number of Youth in Juvenile Detention, Learning Is Possible
A new program is trying to give young inmates a chance, but more teachers are needed.
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Seattle Times
When allowed extra time with books, jailed youths read and read — and read
In youth detention, books can be hard to come by. But when given the chance, young inmates gobble up novels like candy.
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Ozy
David Domenici, Headmaster of the School of Hard Knocks
David Domenici believes he can reform the juvenile justice system by improving education for inmates.
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Ms. Magazine
How Cash Bail Hurts Poor Women—and What We Can Do About It
Women and girls are the fastest growing incarcerated population in America.
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Code for America
Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx and Code for America Announce Historic Partnership to Automatically Clear Convictions
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Equity & JusticeThe Power of Poetry to Change a Life
Award-winning poet and lawyer Reginald Dwayne Betts on the intersection of politics and prose.
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WNYC STUDIOS'You Just Sit There and Wait for the Next Day to Come'
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YouTube
Our Mass Incarceration Problem
Senator Cory Booker narrates a video that breaks down the complex issue of mass incarceration in the U.S.
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Equity & Justice
Our Broken Justice System Doesn’t Reflect Our Values
For decades, our broken criminal justice system has undermined our national potential.
By improving access and tools to promote health, financial security, and well-being, we empower people to become self-reliant and, in turn, make their communities stronger.
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Equity & Justice
Navajo Nation: Empowering youth leaders
Partners in Health, and Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment, or COPE, have partnered with health care teams and community advocates in the Navajo Nation to develop a Youth Leadership program to address structural barriers to good health.
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CNN
Why Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer
Girls began queuing at their local school with their friends, waiting for their names to be called. It was 2013 and a new vaccine had arrived in Kanyirabanyana, a village in the Gakenke district of Rwanda.
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Politico
What a medical school on a Rwandan hilltop can teach the United States
Doctors learn to treat patients without all the high-tech tools — and fairness and access are crucial.
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Devex.com
Training the next generation of global health leaders in Africa
Students around the world are putting on their caps and gowns for graduation ceremonies. Among them are 23 students from Rwanda and one from the U.S. who graduated as the first class of the University of Global Health Equity in Kigali, Rwanda
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Equity & JusticeA New Medical School Will Transform Care in Rwanda—and Beyond
The new campus at Rwanda’s University of Global Health Equity won’t just train the next generation of doctors in East Africa—it will advance the community health care model throughout Africa and across the world.
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Equity & Justice
To Tear Down Racism, Build More Memorials
Equal Justice Initiative is building a productive model for confronting America's history of racial violence.
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Equity & Justice
How Thread is Weaving Community in Baltimore
Thread's unique mentoring model is building relationships across traditional boundaries in Baltimore.
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Equity & Justice
5 Questions with Medic Mobile
CEO Josh Nesbit explains how Medic Mobile connects rural, low-income communities to the healthcare they need.
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Equity & Justice
5 Questions with Health Care Without Harm
Gary Cohen on how the healthcare sector contributes to public environmental hazards and what hospitals can do.
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Equity & Justice5 Questions with One Acre Fund
Founder Andrew Youn explains how One Acre Fund is boosting the Green Revolution in East Africa.