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
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...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
She set out to become a clinical psychologist. Now she’s leading a U.S. movement to save scienceNineteen 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...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
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
