Miriam Axel-Lute

Having had the experience of public art with no public involvement, a community organization set out to show there could be another way.

Coming mere days after the election, the reference to the famous Audre Lorde declaration, “Art gives us tools other than the master’s tools,” felt apropos. The people in the room were ready to hear any message of hope. I was no exception.

If you look at what Rip Rapson has accomplished and the insight he brings to his current work, you’ll get a much better picture of who he is and the challenging work he spearheads at the Kresge Foundation.

Airbnb, as with some other of its fellow peer-to-peer “disruptive” tech solutions, has come under fire from a few directions over the past years. Along with concerns that it could […]

[Edited to add: As of 11/28, We learned that Ben Carson accepted this position. We'll have more on what this means in weeks to come.] Attention has been rightly focused […]

At the Opportunity Finance Network conference in October, I finally got a chance to sit down and talk with Lisa Mensah, undersecretary for USDA rural development, whose energy and spirit […]

Nearly to a person, the 2,300 attendees at last week’s Facing Race conference—and most of the speakers—said, at some point in the weekend that the gathering was “just where I […]

We are definitely in some danger of losing a connection to the animating social movements that gave rise to the industry.

Last week, while in Atlanta for the Opportunity Finance Network conference, I caught a glimpse on a bus tour of the Krog Street Tunnel. The narrow tunnel under a railroad […]

Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent every year to stimulate economic development. Is it going where we think it’s going?

The housing affordability crunch is being felt by ever more people. As this year's State of the Nation's Housing report found: While the share of renters facing cost burdens has […]

East Cleveland, a struggling suburb of Cleveland, has ended up in so much fiscal distress that it is considering allowing Cleveland to annex it as a desperation move. A fascinating […]