After nearly 30 years of collecting rare artifacts, this Detroit teacher launched a mobile museum that travels the country educating people on African American history all year round.

An elementary school in Utah will now be named for the first black female engineer at NASA, who was memorialized in Hidden Figures…

Fears for children’s safety during their commute to school means fewer students are riding bikes or walking to school.

Until all of us are free, none of us are free.

What began as a few nature lovers, this beach cleanup team eventually amassed hundreds more helping hands, then thousands…

With one more vote needed to reverse panel’s unpopular vote, internet freedom groups are putting pressure on Republican senators.

One of the world’s most endangered species, the sea turtle, is under threat from human encroachment and poaching. But a conservation biologist has developed a strategy that could help save them…

Native women across North America are disproportionately vulnerable to violence. The statistics are stark, as is the silence that too often surrounds issues affecting Native women. In response, some Native women artists and writers are working to put faces to these numbers.

It’s one of the most concrete representations of love that we have, yet it’s extremely undervalued.

In Rebuff To Sessions, the Federal Marijuana Justice Act filed In House would help correct decades of injustice surrounding the discriminatory enforcement of marijuana criminalization laws in the United States.

In a remote village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi lies a small garden of near-mythic repute—a place whose stewards grow not mere plants, but hopes and cures that have served the community for generations.

The movement to end the use of wild animals in circuses secured its biggest win yet…

There’s another “me too” story, about a movement that began a decade before it was a hashtag.

As a minority woman who has research experience in India, US, and now Zambia, Dr. Shilpa Iyer brings her unique views on women in science, science and public opinions, and what science can bring to Africa.

The money raised for the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund will provide legal support to women and men who have experienced sexual harassment, assault, or abuse in the workplace.

In 18 states and 20 localities, lawmakers are forcing up the minimum wage…

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee a five-year, $100 million grant to educate displaced children in the Middle East, specifically those affected by conflict and persecution.

World Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change.

As we move forward in the era of Trump, facing vast structural problems, let us remember that Nature is and always will be the ultimate teacher if we heed it accordingly.

Under the Sumner Street overpass in East Boston, a crowd of people gathered in the crisp December air Friday morning for the unveiling of a new mural…

There are more than 100,000 local Baha'i communities in places as diverse as Chile, Cambodia and the United States. On the 200th anniversary of the birth of Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i faith, the question remains: What is the reason for their persecution?