Detroit has taken significant strides toward justice and equity with the formation of a Reparations Task Force, and the task force is ramping up its efforts to make reparations a…

ST. LOUIS — Mayor Tishaura O. Jones has appointed nine St. Louis residents to serve on the city’s first Reparations Commission. According to a statement Friday from the mayor’s office,…

This story aired in the August 14, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents. "I don't know how to describe it, but ... the insistence on pursuing a dream and figuring out the avenues…

When the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed a year ago, some of our international allies greeted it with a level of concern if not consternation given the IRA’s focus on expanding U.S. clean…

New research suggests the continent was devoid of hominins for about 200,000 years after a previously unknown cold snap A period of extreme cooling in western Europe may have driven…

After surgically attaching pairs of mice, scientists suggest the procedure could rejuvenate the older individuals, slowing their aging Connecting the bloodstreams of old and young mice can extend the lifespan…

Nechama Tec, Polish Holocaust Survivor and Scholar, Dies at 92 She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig…

Register for the program here.  Sola Mahfouz tells her story in a new book about leaving Afghanistan, teaching herself math and English, and becoming a quantum computing researcher at Tufts University.…

Jessie Yeung, Anna Coren and Jawad Temori, CNN When Zahra thinks back to her life before the summer of 2021, it seems like another reality. As a student in Afghanistan,…

A state judge in Montana gave climate activists a decisive win on Monday when she ruled that the state’s support of fossil fuels violates their constitutional right to a clean…