The Freedom Quilting Bee was a community-built institutions that helped secure economic independent and democratic participation for a Black Community in rural Alabama at a time when economic opportunities were few.
According to a survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, more people are struggling with food insecurity now than during the peak of the pandemic.
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As we wait for the details of the Trump administration’s proposed deal with Iran, one thing is already clear: The people benefiting most from U.S. foreign policy are often the people making it.
From Jared Kushner’s role in Middle East negotiations, to the Trump family’s rapidly expanding business empire, this administration has blurred the line between public service and private profit in ways…
As the United States marks 250 years of its founding promises, the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union deserves to be part of that reckoning as evidence of what becomes possible when people decide to build cooperative power from the ground up.
The region’s prevailing narrative of individualism and conservatism obscures a rich labor history centered around worker solidarity, public health and progressive attitudes toward equality and class.
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A benchmark study looks at the challenges conservation agriculture faces through the lens of funders and implementors to understand how to streamline funding and support to reach farmers and ranchers interested in conservation farming methods.
Last week’s announcement of a $215 million contribution by Melinda French Gates in support of women’s health couldn’t have come at a more urgent moment, especially considering that June 10 was Equal Research Day, marking the anniversary of the day in 1993 when women were finally required to be included in clinical research. The Contrarian recently flagged that the Trump administration has slashed…
Anyone that thinks Social Security poses a budget problem must believe military spending poses a much bigger problem.
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The UFC cage fight scheduled for June 14 on the White House lawn has been dismissed by some as harmless entertainment and condemned by others as authoritarian theater. But there’s another way to understand it: as a political strategy. By bringing one of America’s most hypermasculine spectacles to the nation’s most recognizable symbol of power, Donald Trump is signaling to his base—especially…
The first-of-its-kind center, called the Little Apple, could be a model for other cities exploring ways to make life more affordable for workers.
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From industrial cattle production to regenerative agriculture, White Oak Pastures presents a model for a different farming future.
The next phase of climate justice may depend less on who writes the rules and more on who controls and protects the money that turns those rules into reality.
How does Mexico plan to bring free, universal health care for every person in the country, regardless of income or geography, by 2030?
Three recent developments reveal how private equity—and Cerberus Capital Management in particular—has gained influence inside the Trump administration’s Pentagon, from defense leadership to procurement to a new $200 billion investment initiative.
The post The Cerberus Men: How Private Equity Is Reshaping Trump’s Pentagon appeared first on Ms. Magazine.
Philanthropic institutions can take essential lessons from the words and actions of May Day protestors across California.
Over the past 25 years, I have had the privilege of working alongside communities in Haiti, traveling there 35 times through my work with the Raising Haiti Foundation. I have met many people like Mirlanda Sully—women and men whose resilience, dignity and determination challenge the way we understand hardship. Her story is extraordinary, but it is not unique.
After armed gangs overtook her…
Concerns about Ebola or hantavirus being a new pandemic are rising, but for the millions with Long COVID, we’re still in this one.
If the administration was serious about reducing fraud and the deficit, it would help the IRS collect the $600 billion in taxes that go unpaid each year.
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Luxury travel epitomizes the inequality that exists in the tax and travel systems.
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What I experienced during my 2014 run for office wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to me.
The year before, I had run for president of the Young Democrats of America (YDA), a national political party office role, against a popular opponent. The opponent was a Black man, so race wasn’t a factor in the election; however, gender was.
Before my campaign, I was vice president of YDA and had heard only good…
California’s Billionaire Tax Act is a needed reminder that we can raise revenue by restoring tax progressivity at the very top.
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It is time for the party to stop coddling “good” oligarchs while punching left and to reject the validity of the entire billionaire class.
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The billionaire’s self-pitying CNBC interview bombed with the public, but adoration is not the point of ultra-rich messaging — Nazi-shaming is.
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The world’s most polluted countries are located in Africa and Asia, and they’re not receiving their share of philanthropic funding to tackle poor air quality.
On May 1, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the mailing of mifepristone, one of the most widely used abortion medications in the country, threatening access for patients already facing a shrinking number of clinics nationwide. Although the Supreme Court temporarily stayed the ruling earlier this month, Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent revealed something even more alarming: a renewed…
The Trump critic and satirist has been one of the most thoughtful, funny and genuinely decent people on television.
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Trump dice que los venezolanos salen ganando con el robo del crudo, pero los trabajadores tienen otra versión
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Trump states that Venezuelans are benefiting from the U.S. oil grab, but workers tell a different story.
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The situation created by the U.S. blockade has been classified by the United Nations as a “humanitarian crisis” that affects the most vulnerable groups the hardest.
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Under the leadership of Keir Starmer, Labor bled 100,000 members, was outflanked by the Tories from the left on corporate taxes, and delivered an electoral catastrophe.
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