With strong, rich roots in the U.S., Black people are part of this country’s immigration narrative.

In this sanctuary, at-risk kids begin to understand the parallels between their lives and the lives of injured wild animals.

When the pandemic hit, I adjusted to remote work as a University of Washington graduate student while my mother, who is a UW custodian, continued to rise at 3 a.m. each day. She and her co-workers ...

I have decided that 2020 was a great year for me. It was filled with so many tremendous professional and personal wins. Wait… scratch that. Actually, 2020 was a horrible year. It was filled with ...

Indigenous environmental movements in North America are among the oldest and most provocative—from the Dish With One Spoon Treaty between Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples to the Mni Wiconi ...

After nearly 30 years of publishing powerful stories that uplift voices too often ignored and spotlighting solutions too rarely seen, YES! Media is saying a tearful, but heartfelt goodbye. While this ...

Read winning essays from our fall 2018 “Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Our Revolutions,” student writing contest. For the Fall 2018 student writing competition, “Feeding Ourselves, Feeding Our Revolutions ...

is a co-founder and columnist at YES!, founder of PeoplesHub, and author of The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New America.

Cross-cultural dialogue, especially among moms of color, can build new narratives that challenge the legacies of white supremacy and foster healing.

Wangari Maathai has always had an affinity for trees. As a child, she learned from her grandmother that a large fig tree near her family home in central Kenya was sacred and not to be disturbed. She ...

The author of the Declaration of Independence had sought to protect not just Christians, but Americans of all faiths. Despite the relatively recent nature of these formal celebrations, the fact is ...

Over 100 studies have shown that being in nature—or even watching it in videos—benefits our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions. Humans have long intuited that being ...