Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Climate Justice
Climate Policy
Race and Power
Racial Justice
Eid day | American Muslim Experience documentary. Eid (Muslim holiday) in Reading, PA. After the prayer, two young men in traditional outfits at the First Energy Stadium. Photography by Syed Yaqeen. Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) has partnered with Counterstream Media to co-publish Peace & Riot’s latest issue—a collection of more than 20 voices exploring climate leadership on the frontlines, in communities, and in the culture. Read the full Peace & Riot issue here. THE PERMANENT WAR …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Climate Justice
Climate Policy
Race and Power
Racial Justice
Peggy Shepard speaking at one of WE ACT’s Dirty Diesel campaign rallies, urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to reduce bus emissions in Northern Manhattan. Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) has partnered with Counterstream Media to co-publish Peace & Riot’s latest issue—a collection of more than 20 voices exploring climate leadership on the frontlines, in communities, and in the culture. Read the full Peace & Riot issue here. In the summer of 1986, New York City sited the …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Black Voices
Climate Justice
Climate Policy
Indigenous Communities
Indigenous Voices
Race and Power
Racial Justice
Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) has partnered with Counterstream Media to co-publish Peace & Riot’s latest issue—a collection of more than 20 voices exploring climate leadership on the frontlines, in communities, and in the culture. Read the full Peace & Riot issue here. This story was made in partnership with BLIS Collective. As we reflect on America at 250, restorying our relationship to land is a critical culture shift. Weaving together the Black Reparations Movement and the …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Climate Justice
Climate Policy
Indigenous Voices
Race and Power
Racial Justice
“Defend the Sacred.” Standing Rock, Cannon Ball, North Dakota, 2016. Ryan Vizzions. Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) has partnered with Counterstream Media to co-publish Peace & Riot’s latest issue—a collection of more than 20 voices exploring climate leadership on the frontlines, in communities, and in the culture. Read the full Peace & Riot issue here. COWBOY MYTHOLOGIES In January 2026, the Department of Homeland Security launched a recruitment ad campaign across social media. In one ad, a …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Climate Justice
Prison Abolition
Racial Justice
Structural Racism
A prisoner in Beaumont, TX attempts to clean up the area around his cell after it was flooded with sewage from the tier above. Stopping up toilets in the cells is a form of protest in prison. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein) Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) has partnered with Counterstream Media to co-publish Peace & Riot’s latest issue—a collection of more than 20 voices exploring climate leadership on the frontlines, in communities, and in the culture. Read …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Anti-Racism
Indigenous Voices
Racial Justice
WetheCivic
By D.C. ALLEN (Baaa T’- chiilash, Del Curfman) (Crow Tribe of Montana) Handheld Tropes features Juanita Toledo (Jemez Pueblo, African American, Afro-Indigenous) standing in traditional Jemez regalia while balancing two enduring symbols of American advertising: Aunt Jemima and Land O’Lakes. Both brands have long relied on racialized imagery to market products, reducing complex cultures and identities into simplified stereotypes. By literally placing these symbols in Juanita’s hands, the work examines the burden of representation and …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Climate Justice
Economic Justice
Racial Justice
Credit: Pierre Markuse on Wikimedia Commons Currently, there are more than 900 wildfires burning across more than 3 million hectares of Canada. “The boreal forest is evolved to burn—that’s how it replaces itself,” Chelene Hanes, a wildland fire scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, told ScienceNews. “It’s ecologically responsible to let fires do what they do.” As long as fires are not threatening communities, she added. Communities are being impacted, though, and those communities are …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
WetheCivic
Photo by Lucy Green on Unsplash Pat Cunningham moved to Cedar Creek, an unincorporated community in Bastrop County, Texas, in 2020. Located just southeast of Austin, Cedar Creek offered the retired nurse and her husband, who moved from St. Louis, Missouri, a chance to be with family and enjoy milder winters. Unbeknownst to the couple, their new home also came with a unique retirement project that has occupied them since its discovery in March 2021: …
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Author:
Aine Creedon
Categories:
Arts and Culture
Children's Rights
Indigenous Voices
WetheCivic
Brandon S. Copley After reading Black Elk Speaks and his description of boxes, or buildings, that would restrict indigenous freedoms, I was inspired to transform children’s toys into statements of colonization. White buildings that seem to haunt with natural stone rosaries are used to break the spirit of matriarchal lineage, nomadic lifestyles, and indigenous rites of passage. Static structures and ideas that were in direct opposition to the impermanence of nomadic lifestyles. Brandon S. Copley …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Racial Justice
Reparations
This article was originally published on the Braxton Institute and can be viewed here. Reparations and Peacebuilding: two words that seem unrelated. Many think Reparations only relates to things that happened “back then.” And that peacebuilding only relates to things happening “over there.” But both are a significant part of building healthy and just societies. And if we bring them together, we can see they are deeply interrelated. Peacebuilding offers a few frames to help …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Black Voices
Liberation
Race and Power
Social Movements
Credit: Roberta Sant’Anna on Unsplash+ Dear Next 250 Years, Inherit something better. Inherit a democracy that listens before the crisis. Inherit civic rituals that do more than gather testimony—rituals that move resources, redesign systems, and shift power. Inherit institutions brave enough to treat Black women’s wisdom as design. May the next American story be honest enough to hear Black women clearly—and brave enough to become worthy of the wisdom they have already given. May Black …
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Author:
Coty Poynter
Categories:
Civil Society and Democracy
Federal Government
Narrative Power
Prison Abolition
Credit: Anledry Cobos on Unsplash This article was originally published on Prism and can be viewed here. Is there any safer street in the U.S. than “Sesame Street”? I certainly didn’t think so. Sitting in my grandmother’s living room as the first-generation child of a Ghanaian immigrant parent, programming like “Sesame Street” is how I first became comfortable with the English language and with American society. It’s also how I made early meaning of who …
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