How Red Sand Is Highlighting Human Trafficking

To raise awareness on human trafficking, The Red Sand Project asks participants to scatter red sand on their cities’ sidewalks. (all images courtesy Molly Gochman/The Red Sand Project)

Last year, New York-based activist-artist Molly Gochman read an article about human trafficking, an issue…

Women make up nearly half of the workforce, yet old-fashioned policies keep them unequal partners. To remedy this, we must first ensure basic opportunities—like making sure girls can get to school.

Shelia Williams, a single mother of five in Memphis, Tennessee, was putting herself through college when the city cut bus routes within the low-income, primarily Black neighborhood where she and her family lived. She almost failed her…