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What’s Your Start Agenda?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As Liz McKenna, an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School has empha siz ed , “Social movements often operate over years, decades. Seven years later, social movements for the most part have proven this theory to be right. Why is that?

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What the US’ Mass Incarceration Regime Costs Black Women

NonProfit Quarterly

Editor’s note: In Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (2022) , sociologist Tasseli McKay offers a “cradle-to-grave accounting” of mass incarceration’s harms by tallying its social and economic costs. They furnish their own transport, often traveling for hours on public trains and buses.

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Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures

NonProfit Quarterly

The resulting public health response is to “close the gap” and aim to level the rates of Black maternal and infant outcomes to match those of the white population. We need only look back one generation to understand the uniquely Black history of midwifery in the United States and the racialized policies that undermined it.

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A Planet to Win—Where Do We Start?

NonProfit Quarterly

6 Yet social transformation on this scale has not historically happened without concerted struggle by ordinary people demanding what they need to survive. The event was convened by Contra el diluvio, an organization dedicated to revealing the consequences of climate change to the public.

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Solidarity Challenges the Status Quo: A Conversation with Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. It arises in moments of social tumult, like the one in which we’re living. These concepts seem as if they have contradictory meanings, but they fit together because social cohesion requires social change.