Arab and Black communities are trying to reconcile after Trump's election
Trump's win exposed political tensions between Arab-American voters — who were critical of Democratic support of Israel's war in Gaza, and Black voter...
40 years ago, Philadelphia police bombed this Black neighborhood on live TV
We're looking back on the day a Philadelphia police department helicopter dropped a bomb on a rowhouse in a middle-class neighborhood. Even though tha...
In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?
Marsha P. Johnson was a trailblazer in the fight for gay rights. But Johnson's legacy extends beyond her activism: "Marsha was a really full person wh...
Why now is the time to find power in "otherness"
Viet Thanh Nguyen came to the U.S. as a refugee from Vietnam when he was four years old. Growing up in San Jose, California, Nguyen remembers the mome...
Revisiting the fight over the Lakota language as Trump targets "divisive narratives"
As the Trump administration targets the Smithsonian Institute for "divisive narratives" and "improper ideology," it got us thinking about how we prese...
Why Trump is sending Venezuelans to El Salvador
One of President Trump's main campaign promises was carrying out mass deportations. We look at how the Trump administration is testing the U.S. legal ...
What's lost in Trump's DEI ban?
President Trump has put diversity, equity, and inclusion in his crosshairs — but there's no consensus on what DEI even means. Some say that that fuzzi...
With measles on the rise, what we can learn from past epidemics
As the U.S. health system grapples with new outbreaks and the risk of old diseases making a comeback, we're looking to the past to inform how people i...
What Mahmoud Khalil's arrest means for ... everyone
Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and Columbia alum, was detained by ICE for his role in leading pro-Palestinian protests at his former unive...
This Palestinian-American's debut novel may not be political — but her existence is
To be a Palestinian-American writer right now can lead to a lot of expectation to focus on identity and devastation, but in her debut novel, Too Soon,...