Wake Up America | We Are Better Than This Elijah Cummings
Date: October, 2019 Publication: TEDxMidAtlantic
full documentary | Huntington, West Virginia | Opioid Epidemic
Dark States – Heroin Town
The opioid epidemic or opioid crisis is the rapid increase in the use of prescription and non-prescription opioid drugs in the United States and Canada in the 2010s. Opioids are a diverse class of moderately strong painkillers,…
COMMUNITY | EDUCATION | EMPOWERMENT | HOUSING | SOCIAL JUSTICE | YOUTH
How To Make Expensive Cities Affordable for Everyone Again
Recently, we wrote about a new report from the California Legislative Analyst's Office that found that poorer neighborhoods that have added more market-rate housing in the Bay Area since 2000 have been less…
Community | Crime and Safety | Education | Employment | Empowerment | Equity | Financial Freedom | Training | Wellness
Why The Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People
In late 2015, Darren Walker approached the foundation’s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a professional development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI).…
Student parent to graduate, her son by her side
Graduating senior Dajanaye Adrow-Hubbard always knew she was destined for college. She grew up in Oakland in a low-income family and knew that her ticket to a more comfortable lifestyle…
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Hidden-Figures
One of the most toxic attempts to dismiss the prevalence of racism is what Jenée Desmond-Harris calls “vanity sizing for racism,” the idea that a large number of Americans cannot…
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor pays a visit
If student reaction is any gauge, Sonia Sotomayor is more than a role model for aspiring lawyers; she’s a revered symbol of what’s possible. The scrappy lawyer turned U.S.…