Art that doesn’t just grab your attention, but sends a message, makes a statement and resonates.

Sue Desmond-Hellmann leads the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s mission to establish equity for every person.

Robert Palmer investigates how the financial system facilitates corruption and other crimes.

In his memoir, "There Will Be No Miracles Here," Casey Gerald reimagines what it means to truly live and succeed in our society.

Global scholar, University of Pennsylvania civil rights sociologist and law professor Dorothy Roberts exposes the myths of race-­based medicine.

Heather C. McGhee designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America, showing what individuals, governments and the private sector can do to help the country live up to its ideals.

The most decorated track and field Olympian in history, Allyson Felix is now taking her talents to the business world.

These photographers capture beautiful and sometimes sobering images, using their art to help fight for social justice.

A collection of talks from creative individuals striving to bring light to some of the world's most pressing issues.

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.

A social psychologist at Stanford University, Jennifer L. Eberhardt conducts research on race and inequality.

Candis Smith is on a mission to eliminate outdated, inaccurate commonsense ideas about inequality.

Gautam Bhan studies how cities produce and reproduce poverty and inequality.

"If there is this big difference, with some people worth everything and other people worth nothing, where do you come?" So asks Richard Wilkinson in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary based on his influential book The Spirit Level. Wilkinson, an epidemiologist, spent his career examining health issues caused or worsened by poverty and i...

David Autor's work assesses the labor market consequences of technological change and globalization.

Tony Award-winning monologist, UNICEF ambassador, firebrand and FCC-fighting poet -- Sarah Jones assumes as many roles offstage as on.

Writer Jimmy Guterman takes society's temperature and digs into the reasons we're all talking about inequality. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is a book of our moment. It may be the most unlikely egghead highbrow bestseller since A Brief History of Time – and it’s a lot longer than Stephen Hawking’s slender guide. Piketty’s 577-...

Paul Piff studies how social hierarchy, inequality and emotion shape relations between individuals and groups.

David Wengrow proposes new ways to think about the history of human social development -- and the rise of inequality.

William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

TED Fellow Jenna C. Lester is working to fix dermatology's problem with skin color.

Engaging scientific knowledge, Nancy N. Chen examines the intersections of medicine, political economy and social inequality.

Inequality is a complicated term. It can be applied to so many factors, for one thing. There's income inequality, asset inequality, gender inequality, social, class, political ... you name it, someone, somewhere likely feels (and is) hard done by. And, for all the focus that Thomas Piketty has gained for his analysis of a new, ever-diverging glo...

Isabelle Boemeke is the world's first nuclear energy influencer.

Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, studies how socioeconomic inequality relates to children's cognitive and brain development.

Science historian Sonia Shah explores the surprisingly fascinating story behind an ancient scourge: malaria.

Data skeptic Cathy O’Neil uncovers the dark secrets of big data, showing how our "objective" algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias.

Sarah Kurnick specializes in the ancient Maya and her research focuses on the creation, perpetuation and negation of inequality.

Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world.

Explore these TEDTalks that discuss income inequality -- what causes it, the brutal effects, and how we might fight it. Start with this talk from Richard Wilkinson, whose 2009 book The Spirit Level gathers decades of research to draw this conclusion: Societies with more income inequality suffer -- in utterly predictable ways -- more than soci...