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Just because people are in prison doesn’t mean they can’t do good.... Scholarship for children whose parents are incarcerated, created by a former CO, funded by inmates

The PTA, the school board, and some parents have taken action to back the park's residents. They've offered supportive resolutions, organizing space, and their time. Nancy Krop, a civil rights attorney, is one of those parents. She says diversity, fairness and justice are at stake.

This is a developing story, for any new updates check out the #Not1More and #ShutdownIce hashtags on Twitter. You can also follow updates on Facebook. Here is what we know right now: according to t...

The NDWA's record of steadily organizing with their eyes on a clear prize of policy solutions, recognition, and respect should serve as an inspiration. The movement's relevance isn't just the fact that they are winning; how they fight matters, too. Any movement that can transform adversarial employee-employer relations into a unified force for public policy change is worth learning from.

L.A.-based agency Omelet is Kickstarting a film project about former gang members using their unique position to halt gang-related violence in the...

The documentary Growing Fairness aims to train an army of educators set on using restorative justice instead of punishment when dealing with high-school kids.

Chester, a USDA-designated food desert, gets its first supermarket in a dozen years.

A decade and a half ago, the ACT started giving test-takers four free score reports instead of three--a small change that's increased the number of poor students at selective schools.

#education

The Obama administration makes good on its promise to give direct care workers the same rights as nearly everyone else—and to top it all off, California follows suit.

By embracing Mister Cee unreservedly, by publicly showing in no uncertain terms that he is worthy of love, and by insisting he belonged on the air, Mr. Darden took an implicit stand on behalf of Hot 97, and maybe by extension, of hip-hop. He answered Mister Cee’s bravery with tolerance, a loud rebuke to those who might prefer to keep hip-hop difference-free.

A radio station is, generally speaking, neutral territory — songs are played, personalities are a bit bland. But Mr. Darden’s behavior reframed Hot 97 as an ideological institution, not just a musical one. He gave Mister Cee a safe space in which to be all the parts of himself.

A lot of marriages dont survive raising a gender-creative son who is, statistically speaking, most likely going to be gay or transgender as an adult. I wish I could to talk to those men. I wish I could be there for their kids.

#allyship #lgbtqequality

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