Eketi entered the house without finesse—one box had scraped her knee, and her palm was sore from trying to hold up the other one. The living room was a tidy but startling neon green. Minimally ...

And to think that we were once called the Isle of Beautiful Waters… . In a way, we have taken a path that has led us away ...

This story is part of Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors, a climate-fiction contest produced by Grist Magazine. Imagine 2200 asked writers to imagine the next 180 years of equitable ...

Members of the tight-knit communities of North Pasadena and Altadena are helping residents pick up the pieces.

YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar’s family evacuated North Pasadena, California, alongside thousands of other residents.

I want those serving life sentences to be heard so we’re not eternally invisible.

I don’t think anyone really knew when I was sentenced in 1992 what “life without parole” meant. There was a lot of speculation. The courts said I would probably do 30 years before I went up for some ...

Sutter Avenue subway station in Brooklyn, New York, calling for an end to police violence on public transit and demanding ...

Free meals for all school children is an essential element of education—and one the majority of people in the U.S. support.

Kolhatkar: When we look at the results of the People’s Budget surveys, people were happy to designate a mere 1.64 percent of the entire city’s budget to police, which is quite remarkable. As an ...

is a Nigerian-born, London-based writer and architect whose work centers on culturally diverse characters, particularly female protagonists standing strong in challenging conditions. Her novel, ...

is a writer from Guadeloupe (a butterfly-shaped island in the Caribbean). She is a Black woman of trans experience, currently residing in Paris, at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities ...