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Fans and advocates celebrating outside a Cleveland stadium after the team name change announcement Advocacy

The Cleveland Baseball Team Renaming

When the Cleveland Guardians took the field for the first time under that name in April 2022, it marked the end of a campaign...

Sarah OkaforSep 16, 20265 min read
An Indigenous artist working on a large mural depicting traditional symbols and contemporary resistance imagery Culture

Indigenous Resistance Through Art

Art has always been a site of contestation. Whoever controls the images, stories, and symbols that circulate in a culture...

Michael ClarkSep 16, 20265 min read
Members of a Native community tending a traditional garden using ancestral farming methods Environment

Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Farming

Control over food is control over life. That is not a rhetorical claim; it is a description of how power operates in practice.

James ReedSep 16, 20265 min read