When Institutions Win and Justice Loses: The Creek Freedmen Case and What Civil Society Can Learn

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s refusal to implement its own courts’ rulings on Creek Freedmen citizenship is a live test of whether legal and moral covenants survive political pressure—and every nonprofit, CDFI, and philanthropic leader has a stake in the outcome.

Finally Free, Leonard Peltier Offers Intergenerational Wisdom for Resistance

Indigenous leader, activist, and revolutionary Leonard Peltier was illegally convicted and imprisoned for 49 years and two months. On January 20, 2025, shortly before leaving office, President Biden commuted his sentence, allowing many of those who fought for his freedom to rejoice—and hear him speak in person on the continuing fight for liberation.

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