Good News About Racial Justice

Stories of hope and progress in the fight for racial justice and equality — and action steps about how to get involved and make a difference

Joshua Houston leads a Juneteenth Parade in Huntsville, Texas, in a photo circa 1900

Juneteenth: How one Black Texas family's fight for freedom on Juneteenth offers lessons for today's lawmakers erasing history

On June 19, 1865, two months after the U.S. Civil War ended, Union Gen. Gordon Granger walked onto the balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and announced to the people of the state that “all slaves are free.”

A group of black people pose for the camera in the 1900s

Juneteenth celebrates just one of our 20 emancipation days — and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

Emancipation Days — like Juneteenth in Texas — are not what many people think, because emancipation did not do what most of us think it did.

A group of kids in a classroom looking at their teacher

Here’s what I tell teachers about how to teach young students about slavery

Nervous. Concerned. Worried. Wary. Unprepared. This is how middle and high school teachers have told me they have felt over the past few years when it comes to teaching the troublesome topic of slavery.

An illustration of gaps in data for AAPI month. Web pages and file folders are stacked over each other with iconography symbolizing the missing data in the background.

AAPI researchers celebrate new standards for collecting race, ethnicity data

The Asian American and Pacific Islander community is the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, growing over four times faster than the total population.

A San Francisco's Chinatown street filled with buildings and lanters

10 historical sites to visit to learn more about Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage

We have compiled a list of historical sites, like 'Iolani Palace and Angel Island, where you can learn more about Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage.

Abstract Line Art for AAPI Heritage Month

22 Ideas To Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month

May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a celebration of the many contributions and achievements of the AAPI community.

Left: a close-up of a golden fence; Right: noé olivas stands outdoors in front of three small trees

While politicians continue to debate the lives of immigrants, noé olivas is making art about them

Los Angeles-based artist noé olivas wants folks to get up close and personal with the immigrant experience with "Gilded Dreams."

An up-close photo of a map of the United States of America with pin markers scattered all over its surface

Black communities are using 'mapping' as a storytelling technique for restorative justice and to restore a sense of place

Historian Carter Woodson sought not to just celebrate prominent Black historical figures but to transform how white America saw and valued all African Americans.

Good News About Racial Justice

Stories of hope and progress in the fight for racial justice and equality — and action steps about how to get involved and make a difference

Juneteenth: How one Black Texas family's fight for freedom on Juneteenth offers lessons for today's lawmakers erasing history

Juneteenth celebrates just one of our 20 emancipation days — and the history of how emancipated people were kept unfree needs to be remembered, too

Here’s what I tell teachers about how to teach young students about slavery

AAPI researchers celebrate new standards for collecting race, ethnicity data

10 historical sites to visit to learn more about Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander heritage

22 Ideas To Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month

While politicians continue to debate the lives of immigrants, noé olivas is making art about them

Black communities are using 'mapping' as a storytelling technique for restorative justice and to restore a sense of place

Meet 16 women abolitionists you probably never learned about in school

Jessie Simmons: How a schoolteacher became an unsung hero of the civil rights movement

A California inmate donated his life savings to relief in Gaza — and then a GoFundMe campaign raised $100k for him

Meet the women who sustained the civil rights movement, though 'hidden in plain view'

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