I made the decision in 2022 to seek out a therapist who looked like me. It was a landing spot I’d long yearned for—someone who could show up for me intentionally, a therapist who could relate to me as a multiply-marginalized Black person. I eventually found a therapist
The National Park Service is proposing to designate 200,000 acres of Big Cypress National Preserve as wilderness. The designation would sever Indigenous tribes’, namely the Miccosukee’s, access to the area, which has been their ancestral lands for centuries—much like what happened when most of Everglades National Park
Adil Abbuthalha felt hopeless last November while watching thousands of Palestinians die from Israel’s military offensive on Gaza. The child of Yemeni and Sri Lankan Muslim immigrants, he wanted to do something to help the Palestinian cause for resistance. A product and data science expert at the tech company
The U.S. is the deadliest high-income nation in the world for childbirth—and Black women bear the brunt of this emergency. We are nearly three times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, regardless of our income or education level. The stress and anxiety caused by
Cultural awareness groups provide incarcerated people with resources for healing but are often punished and mislabeled as gangs by prison administrations
When police officer Daniel Pantaleo killed Eric Garner on July 17, 2014, by placing him in an illegal chokehold, it sparked a nationwide movement for Black lives. In the weeks following his death, Garner’s daughter, Erica, was thrust into the public eye and placed at the forefront of activism.
One of the most pivotal presidential elections is just months away—and the growing Latinx population will play a central role. According to Pew Research, 36.2 million Latinx people are eligible to vote this year, 3.9 million more than in the 2020 presidential election. More broadly, about 1.
Springtime in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1892 should have been a time of rebirth and reconnection. The city was making history and welcoming more commerce with the grand opening of the Frisco Bridge. At the time, it was the longest bridge in the country and the first bridge connecting Memphis to
The Westside neighborhood of San Antonio, Texas, is the heart of the city’s Mexican-American working-class communities. Today, murals and tile mosaics featuring themes from Latinx culture dot the area. A bright yellow and orange “Bienvenidos al Westside” sign welcomes visitors to the neighborhood’s central Guadalupe Street, which grew
In the lobby diner of Sherman Inn, in windy, downtown Wolf Point, Montana, Lance FourStar sips a cup of coffee and orders a reuben sandwich. He hasn’t slept much in the last 24 hours, but that’s nothing new. He’s been up manning the suicide hotline. If someone
In childhood, I was taught the importance of seeing Black faces in government positions and political power. At school, I learned how integral specific Black political leaders were to the Black Revolution—especially during the Reconstruction era and the Civil Rights Movement. I understood from a young age that the
When Marcelle Afram was growing up in Silver Spring, Maryland, his mom would buy bushels of raw olives for preservation. Sitting in the family’s garage, they would clean and pit the olives before packing them in a salty brine. His mom distributed the olives to extended family and friends.
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