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In El Paso, Amanecer People’s Project is building the community power needed to win against corporate polluters and increase renewable energy.

If we want to continue our shared American experiment, we must foster communities with strong civic health.

Deans have a major impact on any university campus. Students feel it in the curriculum they’re taught and the professors they learn from. But at schools that educate students about city landscapes, a dean’s influence has ripple effects in all our lives as students go on to design the buildings that make up cities and plan for the built environment. In this conversation, we’ll hear from deans at schools of architecture about where they see the future of cities, how they plan to educate city builders in the next 20 years, and what must change to achieve a more equitable field.&...

In order to develop a more equitable future, practitioners must plan for it now. Urban planning has historically been an exclusive space — leaving out the voices of residents of color and poor people. With new leadership in many of the field-defining associations, leaders of color are supporting a diversity of talent and changing the ways that city landscapes — and the residents who reside in them — are being planned for.  They’re bringing intention and an eye toward equity to their work — whether that looks like urging the current decision makers to apply th...

Since its introduction in 1989, support has grown for HR 40, the federal legislation to establish a commission to study slavery and discrimination in the United States from 1619 to the present and make recommendations for how to repair harm done to descendants of enslaved Africans.  HR 40 has nearly 200 cosponsors… But it has not made progress in congress since Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) brought it forward. As this legislation stands still, organizers, scholars and local civil servants are developing programs and plans to provide various forms of reparations for African descend...