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Good News: This “dinner series” company pivoted to providing meals for the elderly during the pandemic

From San Francisco to the Midwest to New York, the pandemic has triggered a policy rethink about the fairness of fines and fees for prison phone calls, overdue library books, and parking violations.

Only 3% of active physicians are Black women. A wave of new digital platforms is trying to make it easier to find them.

Across California, midwives and doulas are working to increase education and access to their services to more Black and Brown women.

Muslim women's group 'Aisyiyah is helping the environment and local communities by restoring forests, tackling climate problems and raising awareness on the need to reduce waste

Long before Covid forced states to take desperate measures to find substitutes, schools often struggled to cover teacher absences. Now, school districts want more than quick fixes.

Five Lincoln Public Schools teachers have been tasked with educating Nebraska youth while they’re detained and awaiting court decisions.

As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

“Will they be able to solve every person’s medical debt? No. But for those people they do, it’s life-changing.”

Confused about climate change? This young climate NGO is using people’s own languages to deliver the facts.

With 2,000 fluent Cherokee language speakers still alive, the Cherokee Nation is looking for unique ways to preserve the language. "An Indigenous language is lost every two weeks around the world,” said Howard Paden, executive director of the Cherokee Nation Language Department.

Art is a tool for resistance, yes, but it is also a tool for peace, reconciliation, and healing in response to histories of colonization, violence, and corruption.