NYC’s mental health call response pilot shows promise but is still hampered by police involvement
Recently released data highlights the program’s successes so far, but also reveals where it falls short in meeting community needs.
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‘Not that much has changed at the border,’ says one trans asylum-seeker helping LGBTQ+ migrants
Susana Coreas, founder of the Casa de Colores shelter in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, for trans and gender non-comforming asylum-seekers, is now in the U.S. helping other vulnerable migrants.
Who pays the actual costs for creative labor?
Artists are pushing for a reckoning over workers’ rights and fair pay in their industry.
Political organizing and cross-movement activism isn’t new for Asian Americans
Advocating for their communities’ invisibilized needs deepens Asian Americans’ connection to their identities and other marginalized people.
Racial Justice
As NYC officials eye an enslaved African burial ground for real estate, community organizers demand preservation
The plot of land in Flatbush, Brooklyn, offers a window into the history of slavery in Northern cities—and how that history is systematically erased.
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Immigrant justice organizers blockade ICE black site in New Jersey
The black site is the final stop for ICE detainees before they are forcibly transferred or deported.
Criminal Justice
Education that uses advocacy and social justice offers more possibilities for former and currently incarcerated students
From liberal arts programming to a new microcollege, new higher education courses provide fresh approaches for students impacted by the carceral system.
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