Just Matters
Ideas and inspiration for a just world
A powerful alliance of Indigenous peoples and local communities are showing the world a path to environmental justice with the best technology for carbon capture—their forests.
Around the world, Black feminists are leading intersectional movements for social justice—but they are drastically underfunded. The new Black Feminist Fund will support this powerful global community long overlooked by philanthropy. The fund’s three founders outline why now is the time to back Black feminists.
On the 20th anniversary, we reflect on what we’ve learned since 9/11, the movement for justice led by Black, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian communities to combat the xenophobia that followed, and how we can apply those lessons to the crises facing America today.
Too often, stories of oppression and resistance in the American South are told by people who are not from or connected to the region. Press On was created to elevate the region’s underrepresented stories and diverse voices, carrying social justice forward and advancing a new movement of journalism.
Women With A Vision has become a force to be reckoned with across the American South. Comprised of all of 11 women, the organization took the fight for abortion rights to the Supreme Court, fought to overturn a 200-year-old law that discriminated against sex workers—and that’s just the beginning.
Ten years after the Arab Spring, lingering injustices and continued conflict test and inspire artists across the Middle East and North Africa. Meet six artists who tell the story of the region and remind us that humanity transcends borders.
The Neutral Ground, a documentary produced by CJ Hunt and Darcy McKinnon, chronicles the fight over four Confederate monuments in New Orleans while confronting America’s refusal to acknowledge and reckon with systemic racism.
At Ford, we’re no strangers to the heat. But we know what we’re fighting for—a democracy that fulfills the American founding ideal of representation. Inclusion is patriotic, and together, we can build a truly equal society that extends the promise of America to all.
A son of the South, Darren Walker reflects on the US South, both past and present, and its role in catalyzing social justice movements that have shaped the region—and America at large.
When a South Africa organization suddenly found itself without a leader, its top researcher stepped up and steered the organization through the crisis—all with a little help from BUILD.
The Always Essential campaign brings together a broad, game-changing coalition of activists, organizations, and working people to advance economic justice, and improve wages, working conditions and bargaining power for essential workers. Pandemic or no pandemic, working people are Always Essential.
On the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, Darren Walker reflects on his death as a reaffirmation of our shared humanity and calls for us to carry on the work to dismantle systemic racism in solidarity.