This week's headlines on MacKenzie Scott's donation to The Trevor Project adds yet another chapter to her story of philanthropic leadership. But have her donations to HBCUs and other colleges and organizations actually made a difference?
Essays
The holidays are a time when many people are forced to face their grief, individually and collectively. As we navigate the season, let us remember that grief should be embraced with tenderness and curiosity.
The nurse offered pills to lower his blood pressure. He chose to work out instead. In his first for Grassroots Thinking, Antoine Davis shares the physical and mental health benefits of exercise, and how he reversed high blood pressure without medication.
Prison Writers
Meeting the moment: mutual aid organizing to survive and thrive during the coming economic depression.
Opinion
Incarcerated writer Xandan Gulley writes about why he rejects gender-affirming care due to a change in drugs purchased by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, and how this process has led to feelings of a slow death.
Prison Writers
First, there were postcards of lynchings sent from post to post. Now, videos go viral within hours of posting. What's the point of these images of Black death? Who are they for? Whose silence makes the killing possible again? Read more for a personal essay on the public spectacle of Black death.
Essays
Organizer Ryan Mills shares his firsthand experience as one of the organizers of the 2025 National Black Radical Organizing Conference in Indianapolis, IN. "This was truly an event that I will remember for the rest of my life."
Opinion