Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed ...

Like many residents of Southern California’s San Bernardino Mountains, Jacques Powers wears clothes and boots painted with dirt and mud and gets around in a humming monster truck. But no matter where ...

Reparative movements have a hope problem. We at the BLIS Collective — a solidarity and action hub that braids narratives and grows movements for reparative and redistributive policy — call the ...

Some Indigenous leaders have sought a greater role in the state reparations debate. Tribal nations, the original stewards of all of California’s lands, are pushing for the return or co-management of ...

For decades, global conservation efforts relied heavily on one dominant philosophy: protect nature by removing people from it. Forests became “preserves,” rivers became “resources,” and entire ...

The Klamath Indigenous Land Trust recently purchased 10,000 acres along the Klamath River, signifying one of the largest ...