At a heated district attorney debate in Los Angeles last week, DA Jackie Lacey faced questions about why her office incarcerated black Los Angeles residents at 13 times the rate of white residents between 2013 and 2015. Lacey responded by brushing off the racial disparity as a simple fact of
While women make up over 50% of drivers in the United States, they represent only 3% of mechanics. Little is being done to grow those numbers. In the automotive repair industry, sexism pushes qualified women out of jobs as mechanics, service advisors, and managers—not because women can’t handle
We have a redemption deficit in this country. While our criminal legal system has seemingly perfected the process of imposing punishment, as a society we remain wholly unprepared to reintegrate people who commit crimes back into our communities. When Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin granted over 500 clemency applications for pardons
When 16-year-old Selena Not Afraid disappeared from a Montana rest area on New Year’s Day, local indigenous communities launched into the tragically familiar work of rallying to the side a grief-stricken family as they searched. Her family promptly set up an incident command post at the rest area where
The right is using every tool it has to stop a world-saving climate agenda. It’s funneled millions of dollars to sow fear and false narratives among the public. And its forces exploit the climate crisis to advance eco-fascism and white nationalism. Conservatives are terrified of what the fight against
We’re not marching, and we have our reasons. Low-level wages and weekend retail work schedules. Single-parent family responsibilities. Budget woes that mean choosing between food, utilities, and bus fare or gas money. Irritable bowel syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia, chronic fatigue syndrome, lyme disease, arthritis, broken bones, or any other
Queer people are people too. For years, we have struggled to gain our basic rights: the right to marry, the right to care for our children, the right to engage with society, and the right to live our true and authentic lives. While that struggle has resulted in many of
Four years ago, Indigenous women came together in prayer at the Women’s March in front of the National Museum of the American Indian to raise visibility on the issues of violence against women and the earth, as well as protest the current administration. An Indigenous elder knelt on a
National parks are often hailed as “America’s greatest idea.” They protect nature, conserve history, and serve as places of rest and recreation. Although everyone is welcome, people of color face socioeconomic and cultural barriers that cause them to be starkly underrepresented among visitors to our treasured lands. In a
Last week, Yolanda Carr, the mother of 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, died in the same Fort Worth, Texas, house where her daughter was shot and killed by Police Officer Aaron Dean on the early morning of October 12, 2019. While Carr had already been ill, it is hard to deny that
President Donald Trump recently pardoned a handful of convicted war criminals against all recommendations from the Pentagon. Clint Lorance was convicted of second-degree murder for ordering troops to shoot three unarmed Afghan men and was sentenced to 19 years confinement. He was released with a full pardon from Trump after
As a Lebanese-American Muslim, I spent most of my formative years grappling with the increasing Islamophobia during the Iraq War. I was in the fourth grade—having just crushed it in a game of handball—when I heard it for the first time. “Go back to your country, towel head.
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