On the streets of Nottingham, England, vending machines have been set up to help feed the homeless. The brainchild of a charity called Action Hunger, the system has had such positive results that New York City is planning to try...

Fifty years ago, when Martin Luther King, Jr. began to focus on the intersections between racism and poverty, he launched what he called a “Poor People’s Campaign.” Many of the marchers and protesters who had joined his work against racism...

When Hillary Clinton was interviewed for the Humans of New York project, she recalled taking the exam for law school when she was a Harvard student in the late 1960’s. She and a friend were the only females in a...