Art, Entertainment, Culture, and Creativity for Good

Stories about using art and creativity to make a positive difference

A woman, Gloria Steinem, in black clothing sits on a green upholstered sofa decorated with ornate red and gold patterned pillows in a room with yellow-orange walls, wood furnishings, and decorative objects including lamps and photographs.

How Gloria Steinem helped shape feminism and gender equality

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off,” said Steinem, who founded Ms. magazine and pushed for equality.
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A large curved stone structure sits on a rocky island surrounded by turquoise water and smaller vegetated islands. People stand on the stone surface and near a wooden fence on the structure's right side.

A breathtaking new museum dedicated to whales is shaped like a breaching humpback. It will open next year in Norway

Located about 190 miles from the Arctic Circle, the museum touts rooftop viewpoints and under-the-sea journeys.
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Two women, Olivia Rodrigo and Melinda French Gates, stand together against a pink background with white flower patterns. The woman on the left wears a red sleeveless shirt with a black heart design. The woman on the right wears a white lace top with short sleeves.

These women's health nonprofits lost federal funding. Olivia Rodrigo's $20M donation 'will outlast any news cycle'

Nonprofit leaders speak to the tangible impact this funding will have on their work — much of which has been threatened by federal funding cuts.
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A photo collage of a bale of turtles in a container box, Dolly Parton reading a book to children, a hand holding a taco, Keith Lee, and a close up of a tire

Good News This Week: August 29, 2026 - Cookies, Playgrounds, & Seahorses

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...
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Woman in a light pink gingham dress holding a pink flower near her face, smiling with eyes closed against a white background.

Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival raises $10M for reproductive rights

The donation will be split among 10 nonprofits “dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls.”
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Laptop displaying a New York Times article titled "U.S. Politics" with a cup of coffee and folded newspaper beside it on a dark surface, photographed in black and white.

How journalists are winning back the trust of marginalized communities

Trust in journalism was displaced long before the rise of digital and social media. Here's how individual reporters are building it back.
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A woman with blonde curled hair wearing a denim jacket reads a book titled "Corduroy" to four children seated around her against a white background.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library had a proven impact on children around the world

Worldwide evidence shows that children enrolled in the Imagination Library were significantly more likely to display foundational early literacy skills and to develop an interest in reading compared to those not in the program.
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Woman with short gray hair wearing a gray cardigan over a black turtleneck sits on a patterned chair, holding papers or documents in her lap, in what appears to be a residential interior.

Poet Susan Griffin believed environmentalism was synonymous with feminism: 'We are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl'

Griffin inspired women to embrace environmentalism as interchangeable with women’s rights.
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A photo collage of a coral reef underwater, a man and two children at a playground, a tiger jumping out of the back of a truck, a woman holding an all-terrain wheelchair in the outdoors, and a field and a mountain

Good News This Week: August 22, 2026 - Tigers, Turtles, & Wheelchairs

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An orange and white train travels on tracks through a wide valley with colorful striped mountains in the background under cloudy skies.

Latin America's first solar-powered train travels through a stunning 10,000-year-old canyon

The Tren Solar de la Quebrada travels through a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Two rangers talk to a group of park visitors.

The Trump administration wants to scrub 'disparaging' national park history. Meet the librarians preserving it anyway

The revisions have scrubbed or softened accounts of violence, slavery, activism and lived experiences, raising questions about whose stories the government considers worth telling.
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Man in dark suit and glasses, John Oliver, speaks at desk with Buc-ee's logo displayed on screen behind him against a cityscape backdrop.

John Oliver has beef with Buc-ee's. It's led him to raise $500K to end hunger

The “Last Week Tonight” host has gone after the convenience store chain’s tendency to sue small businesses by opening his own “Buc Off” shop.
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