We join in celebrating the birth of this revolutionary movement in music and honor the artists who contributed to the culture, technologies, and industry of hip hop. The triumphs of hip hop culture and artists are wide spread across the world and their excellence influences every aspect of popular culture. They are  powerful voices in social politics highlighting the pleasures and rage of being Black or Brown in America.

Over the years, we have been imagining and actively exploring additional ways in which we can counter the narrative of the gender binary. Pride month may be coming to a close, but the spirit of Pride does not end on June 30th.

Sugar… it is a staple in our society. However, the history of sugar and how it became such a hot commodity is not so sweet. Lands, economies and people were exploited all in the name of sugar. Learn how the sugarcane industry developed in Hawai’i.

Sometimes in social justice work we like to think that the struggle is an Us vs Them and that each cause exists and works separately. However, crises affect different people in different ways, and recognizing those differences is necessary for building empathy and tackling injustice and inequality effectively. Intersectionality theory allows us to analyze co-occurring and mutually reinforcing forms of inequality.