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This year, Fix—Grist’s solutions lab—put out a call for short stories for their first climate- fiction contest. The call was an invitation to look beyond this moment of climate devastation and dream up what the next 180 years of climate repair can be. Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, sponsored by NRDC, drew more […]

*This piece is published in partnership with Breakthrough as part of By & For: Black Youth, a written series documenting the issues affecting Black girls and gender non-conforming youth.* This essay mentions death, suicide and state violence.   “Memory is a tough place. You were there. If this is not the truth, it is also not a lie.” […]

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Young Americans are divided over Hillary Clinton’s handling of her email account while she was secretary of state, with most young whites saying she intentionally broke the law and young people of color more likely to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt. The new GenForward poll of young […]

Corey Menafee spent years cleaning Calhoun College, named after slavery advocate and former Vice President John C. Calhoun. Like many others that walked the halls, he always noticed a stained glass window that depicted slaves picking cotton. One day in June, enough was enough and he took his broomstick and smashed the window students have been […]

It’s a widely held perception that professional athletes peak early by earning millions of dollars before they reach the age of 30 just to lose most of it by the age of 40. But, maybe it’s time we start rewriting this narrative. To be fair, there are multiple examples of former pros struggling to maintain […]

From Fusion: Last summer, a New York city police officer choked a black grandfather named Eric Garner to death. Garner was suspected of selling loose cigarettes. The arrests of people like Garner are part of a controversial policing tactic called Broken Windows. Broken Windows claims to prevent large crimes by cracking down on small ones. […]

According to papers filed in a New York court, a Brooklyn cop kicked a 10-year-old boy in the shin, breaking his leg as the child recorded him with his cell phone. Police appeared at the boy’s mother Krystle Silvera’s Flatbush home looking for her ex-boyfriend. The lawsuit also contains allegations that Silvera was sexually assaulted […]

The mother of a 7-year-old child is outraged at medical treatment provided by her school. Brianna Hill broke her arm while playing on the playground of Webber Media Arts Academy in Pontiac, Michigan. The child was helped to the office, but instead of calling 911, school staff contacted those listed on Brianna’s emergency contact list.

11 year-old Janixia Soto is being called a hero after tossing her 3 year-old brother from the broken fire escape of her burning apartment building.

President Obama voiced his support for a plan for immigration reform, focusing on three pillars of reform: the enforcement of immigration laws, providing a path to citizenship, and reforming the legal immigration system. Thoughts on the plan and the President’s remarks?

Huffington Post | January 17, 2011 Andres Alonso, Baltimore’s CEO of public schools, thinks that too many school districts are stuck in their ways. “In most school systems, there’s a huge gravitational pull for doing the same thing. So we shouldn’t expect different outcomes.” Alonso was recently interviewed by CNN regarding the transformation Baltimore schools have […]

by Jari Bradley During the peak of the pandemic in 2020, there were numerous online poetry readings being held for the public to attend. I was just finishing my Master of Fine Arts program after three years on the East Coast, and with all the calamity that the world felt comprised of at that time, […]