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Smart ways to think about racism and injustice in the U.S. today

“When police officers, acting in their duty as government officials and the enforcers of our laws, when they kill someone, that’s the death penalty.” There has been a lot of hea...

We’re not so different after all

iO Tillett Wright (TED Talk: Fifty shades of gay) is on a mission to point out that we’re all, at heart, the same. Sure, we might identify as male, female, straight, gay, trans...

Powerful photos of modern slavery — and human survival

Even though many of us likely imagine that slavery is a relic of the ancient past, the practice is alive and well. Since 2009, photographer Lisa Kristine has been documenting th...