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Sep 6, 2023

Why Access to Education is Key to Systemic Equality

Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to safe, quality education today, and why we’re fighting to ensure all people have equal access.
Here’s how discrimination continues to impact access to safe, quality education today, and why we’re fighting to ensure all people have equal access.
A professor holding a lecture to a group of students.
A professor holding a lecture to a group of students.
Sep 5, 2023

Back-to-School Basics: Public Schools Are Not Sunday Schools

No matter what state law may say, school staff can’t impose religion on students.
No matter what state law may say, school staff can’t impose religion on students.
Middle school students raising hands to answer teacher.
Middle school students raising hands to answer teacher.
Aug 29, 2023

Meet Mary Wood, a Teacher Resisting Censorship

As censorship and harassment spread across South Carolina, teachers are finding allies in their communities.
As censorship and harassment spread across South Carolina, teachers are finding allies in their communities.
Teacher and activist against censorship, Mary Wood.
Teacher and activist against censorship, Mary Wood.
Aug 10, 2023

Visualizing the Racial Wealth Gap

From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.
From homeownership to income, systemic inequities perpetuate disparities in wealth.
Close up of a mortgage application and a pen.
Close up of a mortgage application and a pen.
Aug 10, 2023

Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81

The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and communities for generations.
The United States' interstate highway system is structural racism in action: an intentional government program that damaged Black lives and communities for generations.
A collage of black faces with an elevated highway on a blue background.
A collage of black faces with an elevated highway on a blue background.
Aug 9, 2023

The Authoritarian Agenda Behind the Scheme to Attack Democracy and Abortion in Ohio

More than 3 million voters rejected an attempt to weaken their power, but our work is far from over.
More than 3 million voters rejected an attempt to weaken their power, but our work is far from over.
A campaign sign reading "No on Issue 1."
A campaign sign reading "No on Issue 1."