Welfare reform just turned 25. Here’s how we really got it done. While campaigning in Gilford, New Hampshire, during the 1976 presidential election, Republican candidate Ronald Reagan issued an attack on welfare abuse. “There’s a woman in Chicago,” he began. “She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards…

Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” is both a fan favorite and critically acclaimed. In 2020, the Rolling Stone ranked What’s Going On as #1 on its annual 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time list. …

As nearly 40 million Americans invest their hopes in eviction moratorium and relief aid, others purchase homes in the suburbs. Abolitionists considered ways to address this inequity in “Under One Roof.” The New York University Furman Center hosted a virtual conversation to consider what the police and prison abolitionist movement…

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In Louisville, Black women have long struggled for ⏤ and been denied ⏤ justice. LOUISVILLE, KY — The legal profession is one of the least diverse in America. Fifty years ago on the Hilltop, a Black woman decided she would contend with this reality head on. Alberta Odell Jones was…