The crucial midterm elections are rapidly approaching, and it's more important than ever to know who's running, what issues are at stake, and how to have your voice heard. This handy guide can help you get out the vote.

We are all on different missions, sent here to help people in a way that only we know how. My answer to the infamous question, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” was always, “I want to help people.” Cue the eye roll! What. A. Millennial. However, I stood by my answer and still do, but I didn’t know how I was going to help.

Roosevelt University will once again host Social Justice Week, April 9–13, a series of events that will address social and human rights issues in the U.S.

During Black History Month we devote time to honor those who have sacrificed and struggled to make society better for others. While contemplating this, I started to think about whether people like Audre Lorde, bell hooks and even Harriet Tubman ever took time to take care of themselves. My experiences this past month have illustrated that no matter who you are and where you are in the struggle, you need to care for yourself.

2018 is a year in which political divides are heated and deep, more so than I've seen in my lifetime. These differences in opinion too often lead to a sense of "us" verses "them," where people are judged not by the quality of their argument or the content of their character, but by the person for whom they voted or the party to which they belong. This sort of all-or-nothing, black-and-white thinking is dangerous for everyone.

We have much work to do to break down the formidable gender-based obstacles that block women from positions of power and leadership. The political and economic conditions of this volatile moment demand socially engaged research on women and leadership.

Students share their thoughts about what National Walkout Day meant to them and the Roosevelt community.

Until recently, I hadn’t realized how environmental racism operated and existed in Chicago and across the world.

Students often ask me how to apply a social justice orientation to real-world problems. My strategy has been through social justice-based research.