Earlier this week, a dangerous 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the coastal city of Palu, Indonesia, which has a population of 350,000 people. The deadly disasters have killed over 1,400 people and hundreds are still missing.
After Israel ordered for the demolition of Khan Al-Ahmar in the West Bank, Palestinian residents have banded together to resist Israeli bulldozers from destroying their homes. Around 180 Palestinian adults and children face forced eviction from the area.
This essay contains discussions of death in childbirth and reproductive violences “Who she pregnant for?” This is how I remember my aunts inquiring about the potential father of any given person’s unborn child while I was growing up. Not “Who are they pregnant by?” or “Who are they pregnant with?” The question was always, Who […]
On November 1st, Amazon will begin paying a $15 minimum wage to all part-time and full-time US employees. This change will apply to all Amazon subsidiaries, such as Whole Foods.
by Tynesha M. McCullers Growing up, all I wanted was to someday become a mother. I can’t recall a time when I didn’t fantasize about having kids, naming them after me, dressing them in adorable clothes, and loving on them unconditionally. My desire likely came from gendered socialization and the belief that being a mom […]
The Trump administration’s tightening grip on immigration pipelines has increased the desperation of undocumented immigrants, and as desperation often does, this has led to increased vulnerability to exploitation. According to BuzzFeed News, immigrants are becoming particularly susceptible to a common type of fraud referred to as “the 10-year law.” As part of this scheme, fraudsters tell immigrants […]
Garrett Robinson, a senior running back on the Brown University football team, recently helped to teach a training session for the incoming freshman members of the team. But this was no ordinary football training. It was a training about how not to replicate the aggression of football off the field, the likes of which have […]
by Chris Saltmarch Like many of my contemporaries, I never really gave much thought to the sexual desires of women. Much of my life, when I really sit and think of it, I was totally oblivious to the needs and desires of my sexual partners. This was due in part to being raised in the […]
Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton, an incumbent Republican who is up for reelection, is seeking to argue in a federal case that state law dictates parents must give permission for a student to sit during the pledge of allegiance. BuzzFeed News reports that the case stems from an incident in Houston at Windfern High […]
by Kamilah Bush I am a Queer woman with sexual desires that should and can be fulfilled. That took a lot to say. It took a long time for me to say it—precisely because it took a long time for me to even realize it. Not because I was “denying” it, not because I […]
Six years ago, Florida’s Biscayne Police Department had become so adept at solving burglaries that the local word was all it took for them to solve cases was the stroke of a pen. Claiming a 100% clearance on all burglary cases, the Police Chief at the time, Raimundo Atesaino, even went on record saying at […]
University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold refused to write a recommendation letter for a student after he initially agreed. After revisiting the student’s request and realizing the application was for a study abroad program in Israel, Cheney-Lippold apologized and rescinded his support, citing his academic boycott of Israel, an apartheid state that is oppressing Palestinians.
