To go along with her recent Teen Vogue cover, actress and activist Amandla Stenberg directed, scored, illustrated, and edited a beautiful video designed “to help you slow down and feel a little bit more present.”
There’s not a ton of room for environmental optimism these days—optimism in general seems to have taken a leave of absence in the Trump age—but that wasn’t the case at the 6th annual Climate Justice Youth Summit (CJYS), hosted by UPROSE, a Latino community-based organization based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The summit…
For more than a year, there’s been a pioneering effort underway by students at UC Berkeley to dramatically broaden the access that women on campus have to abortion.
Since Donald Trump has been elected president, I’ve heard countless cracks about getting married for citizenship or health insurance. “The world is ending,” the sentiment goes, “so we might as well protect each other.” Yet the more I hear these jokes, the more weaponizing marriage to protest Trump starts to sound like…
There’s this pervasive idea that science is somehow exempt from the ugly political world in which the rest of us wallow. But even a perfunctory look at the history of American science shows that this hasn’t always been the case—and the circumstances that pushed scientists into the public sphere in the past aren’t…
You may have noticed the use of Starship’s 1987 hit “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” in a recent Chick-fil-A commercial and thought, “Hmm, I thought Starship built this city on rock and roll, not hate,” or, “Well I’ll be damned, breeders have torn yet another artifact of queer culture and woven it into the fabric of…
Today, President-elect Donald Trump met Martin Luther King III—one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s sons—at Trump Tower. And according to King, the meeting was “constructive.”
On Tuesday afternoon, Oceti Sakowin—the main camp for water protectors at Standing Rock—was full of people and activity, yet eerily quiet. The temperatures had dropped precipitously: it was about four degrees outside, and with wind chill felt like negative 20. By 4 p.m., gusting snow and a darkening sky were making it…
The Associated Press is reporting that at least 127 people were arrested over the weekend during ongoing protests against the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. Police also shot at a drone that they said was approaching a law enforcement helicopter in “a threatening manner.”
Since a rejected suitor threw acid in her face at age 15, activist Laxmi has campaigned to stop violence against Indian women. This week in London she will walk a catwalk to raise awareness in the United Kingdom.
Darren Seals, a 29-year-old activist and rapper who was a prominent part of the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, was found dead of a gunshot wound in a burning car on Wednesday night. In 2014, Seals held Michael Brown’s mother Lezley McSpadden as she wept following a grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson, the…
On Sunday, August 21, hundreds took to the streets in Istanbul, Turkey to condemn the murder of LGBTQ activist and transgender woman Hande Kader.
One day after a two members of the women-led anti-war grassroots organization Code Pink were kicked out of the 2016 Republican National Convention shortly after a male attendee tried to rip a banner reading “Refugees Welcome” out of one of their hands, yet another activist was affronted by GOP supporters while holding…
Code Pink, the women-led anti-war grassroots organization, has descended upon the Republican National Convention, staging protests and voicing their opposition to the militaristic and anti-refugee rhetoric so pervasive amongst the GOP.
In advance of the April 19 primary vote in New York state, Bernie Sanders has debuted an ad that juxtaposes his history of civil rights activism with footage of Eric Garner being choked to death by a police officer.
ABC’s cast for the upcoming limited dramatic series When We Rise has been partially finalized, and it’s a star-studded roster indeed. Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds, Angels in America), Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential), and Rachel Griffiths (Brothers and Sisters, Six Feet Under) have all signed on for leading roles.
In a rare moving moment in late night, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert hosted DeRay Mckesson—Black Lives Matter activist and one founder of Campaign Zero (an organization focused on ending police violence)—on Martin Luther King Day for a discussion on white privilege, police brutality, and the problem with…
On September 19, in reaction to Congress’ vote to defund Planned Parenthood, Seattle-based activist Amelia Bonow decided to start publicly talking about her recent abortion. “Like a year ago I had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood on Madison Ave, and I remember this experience with a nearly inexpressible level of…
One of the most unnervingly multi-talented, interesting new artists working right now lives in Flint, Michigan, and works a day job at Planned Parenthood. If you’ve ever listened to Tunde Olaniran, you know what I’m saying—it sounds like you’re listening to 15 different artists flex their particular gifts at once.…
Who among us can stand by when one of our most cherished heroes has been wrongfully maligned? Not Ariana Grande’s young fans, that’s for certain. Because now they’re taking pictures of themselves licking doughnut emojis and, in some cases, actual doughnuts to post on the Instagram account @Lick_Donuts_With_Ari.
