Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Much like Donald Trump, the Trump administration seemed to be made of a cutting-edge, space-age substance to which nothing could stick. Teflon Don didn’t even start to capture it. Then, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was caught taking chartered flights on taxpayer money. The scandal peaked on Friday […]
Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, at the annual Salesforce Dreamforce 2013 conference in San Francisco, California.Image: Kim Kulish / Corbis via Getty Images Salesforce continues to build a social good movement within the technology sector. Since it was founded in 1999, the cloud computing giant and its CEO, Marc Benioff, have been trailblazers […]
Image: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Clara Lionel Foundation It was a wonderful night. Jay-Z mingled with fellow tuxedo-clad guests. Beyoncé delicately dabbed her face with the finest of cloth napkins. Leonardo DiCaprio looked off in the distance as someone conversed with him. Kendrick Lamar handed me a microphone (yes, you read that right) and Cardi […]
These five Kenyan teenagers want to end FGM and restore hope within their communities through their app.Image: technovation Five teenage girls from Kenya are headed to California to make their dream of ending female genital mutilation (FGM) in their country a reality. The bright teens invented an app called i-Cut, which provides girls with easy […]
'13 Reasons Why' was a hit for Netflix, but some experts and viewers have pushed back against the series' graphic depiction of suicide.Image: BETH DUBBER/NETFLIX On Monday, five public health researchers asked Netflix to do something seemingly impossible: remove a graphic suicide scene from its popular show 13 Reasons Why. The request, which Netflix shows […]
It’s the last day of July which means, thanks to a pesky thing called inequality, that black women are only now catching up to their male counterparts earnings from 2016. That’s rightaccording to the Economic Policy Institute, it takes seven months of additional work “in order to be paid the same wages as her white […]
Handmaids greeted Trump during his visit to Poland.Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock President Trump and the GOP can’t seem to escape Handmaid’s Tale protestors not even halfway around the globe. During his visit to Warsaw, Poland to meet with world leaders ahead of the G20 summit, Trump was met by a group of vocal protestors in long red […]
Drought in a developing country can mean many things: a lack of water, a lack of food and nutrition, and a lack of economic growth that puts even more pressure on impoverished communities relying on farming for their livelihoods. For women and girls, it also means a lack of protection. In Africa, women do 90% […]
Google honored a deserving figure in American history on Saturday: Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American to earn a medical degree. Picotte was illustrated as the Google homepage’s Google Doodle on Saturday in honor of what would have been her 152nd birthday. Image: screenshot/google Picotte was a doctor and an activist. The Omaha […]
Image: Christopher Mineses / mashable Earlier this week, 18 women dressed up in red cloaks and white bonnets, stood in pairs in the rotunda of the Texas state capitol, and began chanting, “Shame!” in unison. They didn’t stop shouting for eight minutes. They call themselves the Texas handmaids. You probably first saw them back in […]
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