The 1619 Project: In partnership with The New York Times, the Pulitzer Center is building a learning community around The 1619 Project. Explore
this site to find access to the original special NYTimes Magazine issue, teaching resources, information about our 1619 Education Network, and ways to connect.
Advocates for Trans Equality: Founded in 2024 as the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) and Transgender
Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), A4TE fights for the legal and political
rights of transgender people in America. Leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines
of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less than
equal.
ANSIRH, UC San Francisco: Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) is a leading
research program that informs the most pressing debates on abortion and reproductive
health.
Ballotpedia: A digital encyclopedia of American politics and elections, with the goal to inform
people about politics by providing accurate and objective information about politics
at all levels of government.
Bennan Center for Justice: Works to build an America that is democratic, just, and free for all, focusing on
criminal justice, securing the balance of power, and protecting fundamental freedoms
while keeping Americans safe. The center is powered by lawyers, researchers, writers,
social scientists, and advocates.
Black Film Archive: Black Film Archive is a living register of Black films, available to stream for free.
In its current iteration, it showcases Black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently
streaming.
CalMatters: CalMatters is a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization bringing Californians
stories that probe, explain and explore solutions to quality of life issues while
holding our leaders accountable.
Capital and Main: Investigative reporting from California on economic, environmental, and social issues,
including, income inequality, climate change, the green economy, housing, healthcare,
public education, immigration, race, and criminal justice.
Centre for Reproduction Research: A vibrant, interdisciplinary center of expertise dedicated to the production of scholarship
on the social, cultural and political aspects of human reproduction. Their aim is
to develop new ways of thinking about the complexity of human reproduction through
the integration of a range of disciplines, approaches and methods.
Digital Transgender Archive: The DTA's purpose is to increase the accessibility of transgender history by providing
an online hub for digitized historical materials, born-digital materials, and information
on archival holdings throughout the world. Based in Boston, Massachusetts at Northeastern
University, the DTA is an international collaboration among dozens of colleges, universities,
nonprofit organizations, public libraries, and private collections.
Feminist on JSTOR: A digital archive of more than 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created
by feminist activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism
from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century. Groups
represented by these publications include the Redstockings, New York Radical Women,
Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, the Third World Women’s Alliance, and many others.
Freedom Narratives: Biographical accounts include the testimonies and stories of individuals born in
West Africa and enslaved in the Atlantic world during the era of the slave trade from
the 16th to the 19th century. (Coming in 2020, Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave
Trade, a clearinghouse for information about enslaved people and their captors, at
Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University.)
Gender Spectrum: Works to create gender sensitive and inclusive environments for all children and
teens; provides rich resources of gender information and media for all ages, family
members, allies, educators, medical and mental health professionals, faith leaders,
and social services professionals.
Guttmacher Institute: A leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive
health and rights in the United States and globally. Guttmacher envisions a world
in which all people are able to exercise their rights and responsibilities regarding
sexual behavior and reproduction freely and with dignity.
Human Rights Campaign: HRC works to improve the lives of LGBTQ people worldwide by advocating for equal
rights and benefits in the workplace, ensuring families are treated equally under
the law, and increasing public support around the globe.
The Imprint: An independent, nonprofit daily news publication dedicated to covering child welfare,
juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable children
and families.
Inside Climate News: A Pulitzer Prize-winning, nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that provides
essential reporting and analysis on the biggest crisis facing our planet—climate change,
energy and the environment—for the public and for decision makers.
Institute for Research on Male Supremacism: Committed to exposing and challenging common narratives that provide shelter to
male supremacist movements, advancing new theoretical understandings and practical
analysis of contemporary threats, and providing resources for media and activists
to improve their ability to challenge male supremacism and misogyny.
Lesbian Herstory Archives: Gathers, preserves and provides access to records of lesbian lives and activities.
Doing this also serves to uncover and document lesbian herstory previously denied
by patriarchal historians in the interests of the culture that they served. The existence
of the archives will thus enable current and future generations to analyze and reevaluate
the lesbian experience.
The Marshall Project: A nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense
of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. Strives to educate and
enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.
National Center for Transgender Equality: Advocates to change policies and society to increase understanding and acceptance
of transgender people. In the nation’s capital and throughout the country, NCTE works
to replace disrespect, discrimination, and violence with empathy, opportunity, and
justice.
PEW Research Center: A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and
trends shaping the world. Conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content
analysis, and other data-driven social science research on U.S. politics and policy;
journalism and media; internet, science, and technology; religion and public life;
Hispanic trends; global attitudes and trends; and U.S. social and demographic trends.
Politifact: Fact-checks journalism to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves
in a democracy.
ProPublica: Independent, nonprofit, investigative journalism covering a range of topics, including,
government and politics, business, criminal justice, the environment, education, healthcare,
immigration, and technology.
Public Policy Institute of California: a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. Our mission is to inform and improve public
policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research.
Queer America Podcast: Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. From Learning for Justice and
hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio, Queer America takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing
stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.
Queer Digital History Project: Independent digital history project documenting pre-2010 LGBTQ digital spaces online.
Current projects include: a catalog of early LGBTQ online communities, an archive
of transgender-related Usenet newsgroups, interactive maps of TGNet, one of the first
international transgender-specific BBS networks, and primary documents from early
communities, covering the mid-1980s to the late 2000s.
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting: Original stories that hold people and institutions accountable for the problems
they’ve caused or benefited from. Publishes investigative reporting that contributes
to real-world impact, from civil and criminal investigations to new laws and policies,
better-informed conversations and community-driven solutions.
Rewire News: Evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, justice, and
the intersections of racial, environmental, immigration, and economic justice.
Rutgers University Institute for Research on Women: Advances interdisciplinary scholarship on gender, sexuality, and women, and supports
a broad range of programming designed to stimulate research and activism on gender,
sexuality, and women within and across the disciplines, throughout and beyond Rutgers.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: A leading international journal in women’s and gender studies, Signs Challenges the
boundaries of knowledge concerning women’s and men’s lives in diverse regions of the
globe and cultivates alternative research practices that further feminist, queer,
and antiracist goals of social transformation. In 2025, Signs launched the Feminist Coalition Archival Project, which will spotlight efforts to preserve data, share information, and defend the
right to knowledge. Each archive will consist of a range of scholarly work, public-facing
commentary, activist-relevant resources, archived documents, reputable news sources,
and examples of grassroots organizing and information sharing.
Southern Poverty Law Center: The SPLC is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership
with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements,
and advance the human rights of all people. The SPLC investigates U.S. hate groups
and on its website maintains comprehensive information about the groups and their
leaders.
Surgo VenturesResource Library: Uses all the tools available from behavioral science, data science,
and artificial intelligence to unlock solutions that will save and improve people's
lives, including the 2021 "U.S. Maternal Vulnerability Index."
Stateline: Daily, independent reporting and analysis on trends in U.S. state policy. Since
its founding in 1998, Stateline has maintained a commitment to the highest standards
of non-partisanship, objectivity and integrity.
Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health & Human Rights: Committed to furthering the dignity and well-being of women and girls everywhere
by exploring and extending the linkages between women's health and human rights. Dedicated
to research, teaching, networking, and advocacy.
Transgender Law Center: Changes law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically,
and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
U.S. Contraception Workforce Tracker: This national database monitors the location, provider type, distribution/provider
density, and Medicaid acceptance status of the prescription contraception workforce,
with the goal of providing evidence-based support for policies and programs that can
address gaps in contraceptive equity.
University of Wisconsin Open-Access Databases on Gender and Feminism: Sylvia: Scholarly books on gender and feminism Dorothy: Global films about gender and women
Zinn Education Project The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history
in classrooms across the country. The Project introduces students to a more accurate,
complex, and engaging understanding of history than is found in traditional textbooks
and curricula.
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