Nov. 11, 2005 — -- Rather than keep her $3 million trust fund for herself, Karen Pittelman decided to establish the Chahara Foundation, which is devoted to helping underprivileged women and ...

A few years ago there was a highly acclaimed American novel that I simply didn't get. It was competently written, and the story was plausible and scaled to human proportions. But it felt more like a ...

In a groundbreaking 1988 article, Wellesley professor Peggy McIntosh wrote about privilege—specifically, her own White privilege—by identifying 46 real-world instances in which she had the benefit of ...

It began with the sale of the family farm. That’s what David Roswell remembers as the moment when he first began to see himself in opposition to his family’s capitalist legacy. Though his parents ...