43 Search results for "drivers"

Leo Grand’s life changed after a 23-year-old programmer who used to walk past the homeless man offered him a deal: Patrick McConlogue offered to either give Grand $100, or teach him how to code.   Grand chose the latter, and after three months he has released his first mobile application.

Darrell Wallace is making history as the fourth black driver to race in a NASCAR series. He’ll drive for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Camping World Truck Series. Congrats, Darrell! Good luck on Friday!

Earlier this week, yet another video went viral of a bus driver duking it out with a passenger. Apparently, this bus driver has been suspended. Is there ever an excuse for this kind of behavior? Wouldn’t it have been nice if the bystanders put down their phones and broke up the fight?

Can we really say the the legal and justice systems in America are about crime, punishment, and rehabilitation? Are they remotely about bringing justice? If universities, banks, and major corporations are hoarding money and opportunity, starving the people of surrounding communities, why do the police protect these institutions and inflict violence on the people and […]

Does someone’s discomfort with a couple’s PDA ever warrant this bus driver’s actions? Can LBGT people feel safe on Chicago’s public transit system? Have you ever felt discriminated against on the CTA? Sound off below!

A southerner once told me that American racism in the North was worse than in the South. For him, the covert racism he experienced in certain northern cities was more dangerous and misleading. Not sure I ever really understood the call for a more “upfront” racism as it seemed a scary thing that I could be called a Nigger in the open or accosted in a way that reminded me of my place in the world.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I swear I saw commercials for the movie The Blind Side more times than I caught the ads of those cats singing the free credit report jingle.  (F-R-E-E that spells free/credit report dot com, baby…) Environmentalists could learn a lot from Hollywood; that place recycles scenarios more often than a tree […]