adrienne maree brown commemorates the winter solstice with a poem about braving the dark until the light comes.

A coalition in Oregon is fighting to expand access to food assistance—regardless of immigration status.

What if the solutions to our greatest challenges were already all around us? This idea comes from a simple yet radical belief that the wisdom to transform our world already exists in our communities.

Months into the Occupation, a visitor arrived on Alcatraz Island. Chosen by the elders to reveal the traditional wisdom and prophecies of the Hopi Nation, Thomas Banyacya had come to bear witness to a ...

adrienne maree brown reflects on the lessons they’ve learned authoring this column for the past year, and lays out a path for what’s to come.

adrienne maree brown offers a winter solstice poem that encourages us to birth new realities.

In his new book, Building the Black City: The Transformation of American Life, Joe Trotter Jr., Ph.D., explores the role of Black Americans in creating, sustaining, and expanding cities all over the ...

Free meals for all school children is an essential element of education—and one the majority of people in the U.S. support.

Elections declare collective priorities. Considering Project 2025’s explicit intent to reshape the federal government and decimate civil and human rights, this moment calls for an equally bold ...

“Home sweet home” is not quite so simple in the time of polycrisis—economic, political, environmental. Far from the white-picket-fence propaganda of earlier eras, we must reimagine how we live and ...

The theme for our 100th issue was inspired by the political earthquake of 2020 and the butterfly model of transformative social justice.