How We Rise

An indigenous elder braids the hair of a child while they await arrest at the US Capitol during a youth-led civil disobedience action against the continued use of fossil fuels, on the fifth and final day of a week of action hosted by People vs. Fossil Fuels. Protesters have two major demands of the Biden Administration; cease approvals of projects for fossil fuel infrastructure and lead a renewable energy transformation. (Photo by Allison Bailey/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Separate but unequal: How tribes, unlike states, face major hurdles to access the most basic public finance tools

Friday, December 3, 2021

Combating racism on social media: 5 key insights on bystander intervention

Melissa Brown, Samantha Elizondo, and Rashawn Ray

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

A Brighton High School senior waits for the graduation ceremony being held at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox for greater safety during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Growing up as a Black Male Student in White Suburbia: What I learned

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his Build Back Better infrastructure agenda at the NJ TRANSIT Meadowlands Maintenance Complex in Kearny, New Jersey, U.S., October 25, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

What does the Build Back Better Framework mean for BIPOC communities?

Kristen Broady, Camille Busette, Tonantzin Carmona, Keon L. Gilbert, Carlos Martín, Robert Maxim, Andre M. Perry, Rashawn Ray, and Gabriel R. Sanchez

Friday, November 5, 2021

Black Lives Matter protesters in front of the White House.

It’s long overdue for public finance scholars to study racism in the tax code

William G. Gale

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Members of a NYC homeless advocacy coalition staged a direct action on July 29, 2021 outside City Hall to call out Mayor de Blasios Broken Record on Homelessness. Some participants engaged in an act of civil disobedience, resulting in 9 arrests. The group demand that the Mayor and city agencies act immediately to halt inhumane and poorly executed transfers of single New Yorkers experiencing homelessness from COVID-safe hotels into the unsafe congregate shelter system; stop NYPD street sweeps of people into the shelter system; and for the Mayor to take immediate action on Intro 146, a bill which require the City to pay higher rates in its rental assistance voucher program for homeless New Yorkers, which are currently so low as to be useless for the majority of people who qualify. (Photo by Erik McGregor/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

States under time crunch to provide housing assistance: How to fix it

Gabriel R. Sanchez

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Signs opposing Critical Race Theory line the entrance to the Loudoun County School Board headquarters, in Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. June 22, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Reckoning with science, medicine, and scapegoating

Friday, October 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A person receives a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Acres Home Multi-Service Center in Houston, Texas, U.S., October 13, 2021. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare/File Photo

Discrimination in the healthcare system is leading to vaccination hesitancy

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Matt Barreto, Ray Block, Henry Fernandez, and Raymond Foxworth

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Thirteen-year-old Nizhoni Stencil, who is Navajo, and twelve-year-old Tasia Pecos, who is Jemez, prepare for the Grand Entry on the opening night of the 32nd Annual Taos Pueblo Pow Wow, a Native American dance competition and social gathering, in Taos, New Mexico, U.S., July 7, 2017. Picture taken July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Aligning child welfare with the relational connectedness of ICWA

Jessica Saniguq Ullrich and Jerreed D. Ivanich

Monday, October 4, 2021

New York City Police Officers (NYPD) transport Saadiq Teague, 18, from the Columbus Circle Transit Bureau Police Station, where he was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in third degree; one count for the assault rifle and one for ammunition, and no one count of criminal use of drug paraphernalia after being found with an unloaded semi-automatic gun, ammunition and a gas mask outside a Times Square subway station, in New York City, U.S., April 16, 2021. REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs

Biden should end America’s longest war: The War on Drugs

Friday, September 24, 2021

Attendees gather at the Robert E. Lee Monument as part of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration on January 18, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo: Chris Tuite/ImageSPACE/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The art of Black Lives Matter: Lessons for organizations and policymakers from the streets

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Heavily armed Strategic Response Unit officers of the NYPD are seen stationed in front of the Empire State Building on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in New York City. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday hes enlisted former Mayor Mike Bloomberg to help create a tracing army that will find people infected with the coronavirus and get them into isolation. With 474 virus related deaths on Tuesday, New York state has now recorded more than 15,000 since the outbreak began. (Photo by Louis Lanzano/Sipa USA)/Sipa USANo Use UK. No Use Germany.

How 9/11 helped to militarize American law enforcement

Thursday, September 9, 2021

A sign warns of asbestos on the doorway to the office tower at 215 W. Oak St. in Fort Collins, Colo. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020.090120 Asbestos 01 Bb

The danger of America’s forgotten battle with asbestos

Alisa Ghura and Camille Busette

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Offenders research and work on their papers inside the Southwestern Baptist Theological computer lab located in the Darrington Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice men's prison in Rosharon, Texas August 12, 2014. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)

The societal benefits of postsecondary prison education

Alexandra Gibbons and Rashawn Ray

Friday, August 20, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Diamond League - Gateshead - Gateshead International Stadium, Gateshead, Britain - May 23, 2021 Sha'Carri Richardson of the U.S. celebrates winning her women's 100m heat REUTERS/Lee Smith

Why the World Anti-doping Agency should revisit its cannabis ban

Rashawn Ray and John Hudak

Wednesday, August 4, 2021