June 5: World Environment Day#WorldEnvironmentDay 2026 focuses on climate change—on the urgent signals the Earth is sending and the signals we choose to send back. UNEP’s global campaign calls on all of us to step in #NowForClimate, and steer...READ MORE
June 8: World Ocean DayWorld Ocean Day catalyzes collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate, working in collaboration with youth leaders and a wide range of organizations in nearly 200 countries.READ MORE
June 19: Juneteenth (Wiki)Officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday’s name, first used...READ MORE
Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined itThe supreme court paved the way for racial discrimination in voting, 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr and thousands of other movement leaders bled, marched and mobilized for Congress to outlaw it. This is...READ MORE
The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracyIs America a democracy? The term implies an equality of rights and dignity among citizens, a collective and uniform right of individuals to participate in self-government and to shape the laws that rule them. In...READ MORE
‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and raceShe coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke.’ As her memoir is published, the legal scholar explains why she’ll...READ MORE
This Black History Month, the leaders of the past can teach real resistanceNearly 60 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr posed a question that still haunts us. In his final book, published just a year before his death, ‘Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?’,...READ MORE
The life of civil rights hero Claudette Colvin should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stopsClaudette Colvin, who died in a hospice in Texas, did her job while she was here on the planet, although it was several decades before her physical and material sacrifice was acknowledged. On March 2,...READ MORE
The U.S. left Vietnam 50 years ago today; the media hasn’t learned its lessonThe last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on April 30, 1975, marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about U.S. media coverage of the war...READ MORE
June 5: World Environment Day#WorldEnvironmentDay 2026 focuses on climate change—on the urgent signals the Earth is sending and the signals we choose to send back. UNEP’s global campaign calls on all of us to step in #NowForClimate, and steer...READ MORE
