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several days right after Shelby Monaghan, an actor in Los Angeles, matched with a new guy on Bumble, her roommate put her on the spot. Calling it a “important quarantine love story,” Los Angeles Times reporter Amy Kaufman chronicled how Monaghan’s match, a chef named Wes, started wooing her in the era of social distancing. One night, he categorized her food from Gjusta, the res..
Read MoreRowena Chiu is a survivor, and she understands firsthand why people who have experienced what she has some days don’t come forward. the initial time she tried was in 1998: Chiu was 24 years old and working as an assistant as soon as Harvey Weinstein targeted, groomed, and diminished her, and eventually attempted to rape her in a hotel room in Venice, Italy. Though she and also a fr..
Read MoreBy Brent J. Cohen Just over a decade ago, my roommate and I sat on the couch in our new apartment watching the news: Wall-to-wall coverage of people walking into shiny office buildings with empty boxes and walking out with their belongings. It was September 2008 and the Lehman Brothers investment bank was collapsing, a fact that felt especially personalized to us given that my roomma..
Read MoreFormer President Barack Obama has finally weighed in on the 2020 race. On Tuesday (April 14), he formally endorsed his vice president, Joe Biden, who stands to be the presumptive Democratic nominee. In a video message posted to Biden's YouTube page, the 44th president started by addressing what he called "the obvious": that the novel coronavirus pandemic means "these aren't regular t..
Read MorePresident Donald Trump had an absolute meltdown while in a press conference on Monday (April 13), in which he mentioned he doesn't "take responsibility at all" for the lackluster governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic and falsely claimed that his "authority is total" as president, something the other two branches of government, the founding fathers, and constitutional schol..
Read MoreThere’s an old saying that’s eerily suitable in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic: “If white America sneezes, Black America catches the flu.” And as New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tells MTV News, “It's almost never been more literal than it is now.” The most marginalized groups will usually bear the brunt of a crisis. At the height of..
Read MoreSenator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Ro Khanna (CA-17) have a plan for that. On Monday (April 13), the lawmakers released a proposal for a 10-point critical Workers Bill of Rights," which is designed to protect essential workers while in the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Washington Post, as plenty of Residents of the U.S. Practice social distancing and wo..
Read MoreAmani Al-Khatahtbeh is aware how to amplify marginalized voices to carry out a usual objective. In 2009, the then-teenager launched Muslim Girl, a digital space by and for herself and her companions, that soon grew into a media powerhouse where Muslim females and ladies are both centered and pushing the conversation forward. Over a decade later, she’s taking the skills she’s learn..
Read MoreEvery weekday morning, the men wake up at 7 a.M. In their shared, open-floor rooms at the Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility in Oregon. Typically, they’d get ready for their day and walk to the nearby six-room school, where they would join about 65 other residents for class. At the end of the day, they'd go back to their units, have dinner with each other, and play outdoors. B..
Read MoreBernie Sanders, the Vermont senator who advocated for progressive policies like Medicare 4 All while in the entire of his presidential campaign, has officially suspended his bid for the Democratic nomination. He was one of the two remaining major candidates vying for the nomination, down from a crowded field of dozens of hopefuls. Per a press release, the Sanders campaign confirmed ..
Read MoreBy Sarah Emily Baum With seven months to go before the November general election, Elijah Manley should be knocking on doors and courting constituents. As a substitute, the 21-year-old college student and congressional candidate in Florida’s 94th legislative district is in isolation because he likely has COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. “Before I fell sick, ..
Read MoreVoters in Wisconsin cast their ballots for the presidential primary on Tuesday (April 7) — however not without having to navigate a prohibitive blend of hours-long lines, drastically reduced numbers of polling places, plus a necessary for masks and other protective gear to minimize the spread of the novel coronavirus. In short, this is what in-person voting looks like throughout t..
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