Throughout American history, progress has been met with backlash, but the arc of the moral universe always bends towards justice, and the victories of the Civil Rights movement and other social justice movements have set the stage for further expansion of freedom and justice.
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Black Women Often Need More Help Fighting Postpartum Depression
No one could understand what was happening in Kay Matthews’ head, and she struggled to tell them. All she knew was that, in 2013, the stillborn birth of her daughter […]
Posted inClimate Justice
The Big Beautiful Bill Is Bad for Climate Justice Too
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law on the Fourth of July, rescinds the EPA’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program and jeopardizes billions in promised grants, putting environmental and climate justice at risk.
Posted inEducation
Can College-Prep Programs Survive Trump’s War on DEI?
The Trump administration has warned colleges that they will lose funding for admissions programs that “favor one race over another”, putting programs like the VIP Scholars Program at UCLA and the University of Southern California’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative at risk of losing federal funding.
Posted inWord In Black
Heat Is a Warning: What We’re Losing and Who We’re Leaving Behind
The Trump administration has dismantled programs meant to protect vulnerable communities from extreme heat, leading to increased deaths and suffering, while the federal government continues to ignore climate change and the needs of the most vulnerable.
Posted inClimate Justice
Trump’s EPA Cut $3B in Climate Grants. Now, a Lawsuit
A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 23 organizations to reinstate $3 billion in EPA grants that were cut by Trump’s executive orders, arguing that the money was appropriated by Congress and cannot be undone by the President.
Posted inEducation
What California Education Cuts Could Mean for Black Students
The Trump administration’s proposal to cut nearly $8 billion in federal education funding for California could exacerbate the state’s Black student crisis, which already projects that California’s Black K-12 public school students won’t reach reading proficiency until 2070 and math proficiency until 2089.
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‘We Need to Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize to Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding
HIV advocates are organizing to counter the Trump administration’s cuts to federal HIV funding, which has led to testing and outreach for HIV faltering in the South and could result in an additional 14,600 HIV-related deaths within the next five years.
Posted inHealth
5 Takeaways from Health Insurers’ New Pledge to Improve Prior Authorization
The largest US health insurers have agreed to streamline their preapproval process, making fewer medical procedures subject to prior authorization and speeding up the review process, but the new commitments may not protect the sickest patients who need the most expensive treatment.
Posted inClimate Justice
The Fight to Preserve NOAA: Scientists Rally to Save Key Climate and Ocean Research
Former NOAA employees and allies rallied to save the agency from further cuts, citing its importance in climate, conservation, and weather forecasting, while former research biologist Dr. Holden Harris is now selling frozen chocolate bananas on the beach in Florida after being laid off in February.