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Equality
'A Queer Tax.' New Lawsuit Alleges Aetna Discriminates Against LGBTQ People Seeking Fertility Treatment
By Madeleine Carlisle
‘We Were Willing to Give Up Everything.’ Billie Jean King Reflects on Her Legacy and New Memoir
All In
By Cady Lang
Organizations Must Reorient Work to Center Workers
By Darren Walker
South Africa Wealth Gap Unchanged Since Apartheid, Says World Inequality Lab
By Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg
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Equality
Now Is Our Chance to Rebuild U.S. Public Schools To Address Both Climate Change and Racial Inequality
When school facilities closed for in-person learning in early March 2020, the assumption was that the shutdown and pandemic would be temporary blips in the memory of our students. Some 16 months later, school facilities...
By Akira Drake Rodriguez
August 6, 2021
The Texas Democrats Go to Washington
Critics see Texas Democrats' walkout to D.C. as a publicity stunt. A few days in D.C. with the lawmakers show it's more than that
By Janell Ross/Washington, D.C.
August 17, 2021
Heather McGhee's Quest to End America’s Zero-sum Thinking on Race
Heather McGhee was cooking dinner in her Brooklyn apartment in January as she opened a YouTube link to watch Joe Biden deliver his first speech on race as the President. As she bustled around the...
By Alana Semuels
July 28, 2021
LGBTQ People Across the U.S. Face Many Disparities In Health Care. A New Fellowship Aims to Bridge Those Gaps
The American Medical Association Foundation announced on Tuesday that the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Public Health and Medicine will be the first institution to participate in its new National LGBTQ+ Fellowship Program, which aims...
By Madeleine Carlisle
August 17, 2021
Zaila Avant-garde Knows Spelling Bee History Is Troubling
Zaila Avant-garde made history as the first Black winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, but true equality in spelling remains elusive
By Janell Ross
August 17, 2021
Guaranteed Income for Americans is Here to Stay
On July 15, nearly every parent in America will begin receiving a guaranteed income. Labeled the Child Tax Credit, this $300 per month delivered directly to families mirrors the simplicity of a policy espoused by...
By Melvin Carter, Eric Garcetti and Michael Tubbs
July 12, 2021
‘Here We Can Express Ourselves With Freedom.’ In Puerto Rico, A Trans Collective Is Reimagining Family Values
Among the rocks of their Caribbean archipelago, a group of trans artists and creatives in Puerto Rico have found their safe port. It is a harbor offering them safety and affirmation amid choppy waters. Both...
By Alejandra Rosa
July 6, 2021
U.S. Can't Move Forward on LGBTQ Rights Without Reparations
It is generally hard to know when a social revolution has achieved its goals. In the case of the American gay rights revolution, however, it appears that this is an easy one to call. At...
By Omar G. Encarnación
July 6, 2021
Meet the Chinese Ex-Cop Creating a Global LGBTQ+ Community
How a gay lifestyle blog, run in secret by a Chinese policeman, morphed into an app with 63 million LGBTQ members worldwide
By Charlie Campbell / Beijing
June 30, 2021
Data Shows Teletherapy Leaves Marginalized Patients Behind
The same problems that kept many people from seeking care before the pandemic still exist
By Jamie Ducharme
September 2, 2021
How Kids Perceive Racism in the U.S.
86% of children believe that people in the U.S. are treated unfairly because of race
By Cady Lang
June 9, 2021
Leyna Bloom on Opening Doors for the Next Generation of Trans Talent
The actor, model and activist talks to TIME about her trailblazing firsts and the magic of ballroom culture
By Suyin Haynes
June 3, 2021
Why the Senate Needs to Pass the Equality Act
It’s been just over 40 years since the assassination of Harvey Milk, the trailblazing gay activist who became one of the country’s first out LGBTQ public officials when he was elected to the San Francisco...
By Rosemary Ketchum
May 22, 2021
Meet the Artist Who Created
God Bless the Child
, Featured on TIME’s Cover
For this week’s special issue, Visions of Equity, we turned the cover over to Jordan Casteel. Here's the story behind her painting
By Victor Williams
May 13, 2021
Police Killings Didn't Decline After George Floyd's Murder
Since last June, police in the U.S. have killed people at virtually the same rate that they have for the past five years
By Andrew R. Chow
May 13, 2021
A Year After America’s Racial Reckoning, Little Has Changed
Janell Ross reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t—one year after America’s so-called racial reckoning
By Janell Ross
June 3, 2021
Journalists Reflect on Covering Stories About Their Communities
Longstanding journalistic maxims would have a reporter remain disengaged while gathering the facts. But pursuing the whole truth means considering the humanity of one’s subjects—and of oneself. Lived experience can help a reporter empathize and...
By Jasmine Aguilera
June 3, 2021
The Story Behind TIME’s First-Ever BIPOC-Led Issue
A year ago, we at TIME started talking about the ways we’ve fallen short. Soon after George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, staffers from across the organization began sharing painful memories of being mistreated in...
By Lucy Feldman
May 13, 2021
How People of Color Found Community During the Pandemic
The supreme thrill of sharing space with others has never been so keenly felt—or missed—as in the past year. In a time marked by immeasurable loss, fear and upheaval, pods and social distancing entered the...
By Cady Lang
July 22, 2021
How Activists Around the World Are Fighting for Justice
The video of Derek Chauvin’s kneeling on George Floyd’s neck traveled from a Minneapolis street to every corner of the world. Black activists in the U.K. spoke of their visceral reactions to the footage, while...
By Amy Gunia
June 3, 2021
11 Asian American History Moments You Should Know
More than 30 years after President George H.W. Bush signed a law that designated every May as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, much of Asian American history remains unknown to many Americans—including Asian Americans themselves
By Olivia B. Waxman
June 30, 2021
Can the COVID-19 Economic Recovery Prioritize Women?
“Without all the work that women did this year, there’d be no economy to rebuild.”
By Ciara Nugent
June 30, 2021
The Fight Against Climate Change Is a Fight for People
When I was 8 years old, I wrote a letter asking President Nixon to do what he could to protect our planet. I didn’t know I’d one day go on to lead the agency he...
By Lisa P. Jackson
May 18, 2021
Big Tech's Business Model Is a Threat to Democracy. Here's How to Build a Fairer Digital Future
Under President Biden, tech reform will take on a new urgency
By Billy Perrigo
May 18, 2021
Is India Ready to Legalize Same-Sex Marriage?
Kavita Arora and Ankita Khanna's petition has brought the topic of marriage equality into the open in India, where LGBTQ issues are still largely considered taboo
By Abhishyant Kidangoor
May 18, 2021
What LGBTQ Lawmakers Want to See From Biden
In the 2020 elections, 334 openly LGBTQ candidates won office; the highest ever in any election year
By Suyin Haynes
January 22, 2021
What Kids Say They Want to March for Today
Their responses are inspiring
By TIME for Kids
February 28, 2020
'There Is Not Some Separation Between Jesus and Justice.' How Rev. William J. Barber II Uses His Faith to Fight for the Poor
The pastor attracted national attention as the leader of the 'Moral Mondays' protests
By Mary C. Curtis
May 18, 2021
These 16 People and Groups Are Fighting for a More Equal America
These activists and leaders want to make our world more equal
By TIME Staff
February 20, 2020
8 Radical Ideas for a More Equal America
From baby bonds to universal paid leave
By Abigail Abrams
February 20, 2020
Behind the Making of TIME's Martin Luther King Jr. Cover
Thomas says he understood the need to convey both King’s standing as a historical figure and his legacy
By Anna Purna Kambhampaty
February 20, 2020
Thomas Jefferson's Vision of Equality Was Not All-Inclusive. But It Was Transformative
Thomas Jefferson began life in a monarchy, under the reign of George II, in one of Britain’s North American colonies—Virginia. In this monarchical system everyone knew his or her place, with little expectation of being...
By Annette Gordon-Reed
February 20, 2020
Inside the Making of TIME's Equality Issue
Go behind-the-scenes with the making of TIME's issue devoted to equality
By Edward Felsenthal
February 20, 2020
The Fight Over the Meaning of Equality
The conservative scholar argues for the importance of equal opportunities over equal outcomes
By Ken Masugi
March 10, 2020
How Baby Boomers Broke America
ONE Lately, most Americans, regardless of their political leanings, have been asking themselves some version of the same question: How did we get here? How did the world's greatest democracy and economy become a land...
By Steven Brill
May 18, 2021
Equality Matters More than Income for Kids
These are today's best ideas
By The Aspen Institute
March 1, 2018
It's Time for Progressives to Fight for Women of Color
By now it’s clear the Trump era will be cruel to women. The President and Congress have proposed draconian cuts to the nation’s most effective health, nutrition, education, and disability programs, eviscerating benefits that have...
By Andrea Flynn
June 19, 2017
Fewer Young People Want Gender Equality at Home
More high school seniors want men to be 'the high achievers outside the home'
By Belinda Luscombe
May 18, 2021
This Week Was One Big ‘Still Not Equal!' Memo to Women
Several reports offer new data on the gender gap
By Samantha Cooney
February 12, 2018
Laverne Cox Told Everyone to Google This Transgender Student at the Grammys
The transgender teen whose case for bathroom rights is heading to the Supreme Court in March
By Maya Rhodan
May 18, 2021
This Mathematician Says Big Data Punishes Poor People
Algorithms that we use daily actually thwart equality, says Cathy O'Neil
By Rana Foroohar
May 18, 2021
Photojournalism is Facing an Inequality Crisis
“Everyone thinks it is someone else’s problem, or that the problem will correct itself."
By Anastasia Taylor-Lind
May 18, 2021
Melinda Gates: 'Poverty is Sexist'
Women are more likely to be impoverished, and it’s harder for them to break out of it
By Melinda French Gates
March 5, 2019
Hunger Games
Actress Amandla Stenberg Comes Out As Bisexual on Snapchat
"It’s deeply bruising to fight against your identity"
By Megan McCluskey
January 8, 2016
Women Pay More for Everything, Report Finds
Not just shampoo—the "pink tax" applies to baby clothes and adult diapers as well
By Charlotte Alter
May 18, 2021
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