Bert and Maureen Grogan moved to Uniondale, N.Y., in the 1970s from Guyana. Back then, they were one of the Long Island town's few immigrant families. They left to California in 1988, returned to Uniondale in 1999 and realized that the town had undergone a radical demographic makeover since they'd been away.  

President Trump’s recent trip to the Museum of African American History and Culture with black allies in tow, Omarosa Manigault and HUD Secretary nominee Ben Carson, obscures the fact that his policies are poised to set back the very communities he claims to want to help.

As a climate activist, I know we will have a lot to defend over the next four years. The recent news on Trump’s decision to revive the toxic Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines makes even the most optimistic activists gravely concerned.

More than 50 progressive organizations sent a message of united resistance to Donald Trump’s administration as the U.S. Senate began confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill.

WASHINGTON - More than 50 progressive organizations sent a strong message of united resistance to the Trump administration on the same day his cabinet hearings begin on Capitol Hill. In a video and public pledge, movement leaders including NAACP President Cornell Brooks, Greenpeace USA Executive Director Annie Leonard, and SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry pledged to defend everything they say that Trump most urgently threatens including civil rights, immigrants, women’s reproductive rights, social equality, action on climate change, public health and safety, public dissent, and access to information. 

Donald Trump has now confirmed what many climate activists have known since the beginning: He will not be a friend of ours. His selection of climate denier Scott Pruitt as Environmental Protection Agency administrator confirms our worst suspicions. What about his meeting with Al Gore? Trump is an entertainer, and that was just part of the show.

She should have been thinking about cake and candles, but she was thinking about cataclysm instead.

Vien Truong, one of the firm's four board of directors, was a headliner at a fundraiser for Clinton organized by the CleanTech Party, an environmental organization that endorsed Clinton, according to the Caller. The Daily Caller reported Tuesday that Megaphone Strategies was co-founded by Van Jones, who worked in the Obama administration as the green jobs czar before resigning in 2009. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

A carbon tax proposal in Washington state, scheduled for the ballot on Tuesday, has been drawing national attention for weeks as a result of the unexpected controversy it’s inspired among environmental groups, many of whom have outright opposed the initiative. And in the final days leading up to the vote, new voices have continued to join the fray, including influential players on all sides of the climate change conversation.