The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth
On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that night, enslaved and free African Americans gathered in churches and private homes all across the country awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect.
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 a world already in motion. See how you can get involved.https://www.worldenvironmentday.global
June 8: World Ocean Day
World 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.
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 in the 1890s, is a portmanteau of June and 19th, referring to June 19, 1865, the day when Major General […]
June 20: World Refugee Day (Wiki)
World Refugee Day is an international day organized every year by the United Nations. It is designed to celebrate and honor refugees from around the world. The day was first established in 2001, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.
Activists paid for the Voting Rights Act in blood. The supreme court has undermined it
The 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 a break-glass outcome for what was already a severely weakened Voting Rights Act (VRA), and it will reshape the future […]
The supreme court’s voting rights decision is a death knell for American democracy
Is 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 that sense, the answer is no: though it has been a republic since its founding, America has only rarely been […]
She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she’s leading a U.S. movement to save science
Nineteen days into the second administration of Donald Trump, Colette Delawalla reached her limit. The 30-year-old budding clinical psychologist and mother of a toddler had been eager to finish her dissertation and launch a scientific career dedicated to teaching and research on addiction.
‘I saw the backlash coming’: civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on America and race
She 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 never stop speaking truth to power.
This Black History Month, the leaders of the past can teach real resistance
Nearly 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?’, he argued that we were standing at a crossroads: one path leading toward chaos—deepening poverty, violence, and repression—while the other […]
