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We're Striking For 72 Hours This Earth Day — Are You Joining Us?

In 100 days exactly, we plan to strike again. On April 22, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, young people and adults across the United States will once again take to the streets to demand climate action. Earth Day will launch three successive days of massive strikes, fulfilling our promise to take the climate strike movement in back of what we achieved on September 20. Inaction isn'..

Jamie Foxx On The Lesson His Grandmother Taught Him: 'Black Men Can't Make White Man Mistakes'

For Jamie Foxx and Michael B. Jordan, working on the new film Just Mercy was a possibility to flex their star power on an offer that hits close to home: The ways in which the criminal justice system is often stacked against minorities, and especially Black people, from the start. Based on the memoir of the same name by lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson, and directed by Destin Danie..

Puerto Rico Is In A State Of Emergency After Deadly 6.4 Earthquake

Soon after a week of seismic activity in Puerto Rico, the strongest of the tremors hit the island on Tuesday (January 7), leading Governor Wanda Vázquez to declare a state of emergency and activate the National Guard, El Nuevo Dia newspaper reported. Since the 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the island’s southern coast near Ponce early Tuesday morning, there have been at least 20 ..

Harvey Weinstein Faces Additional Felony Sexual Assault Charges In Los Angeles

On Monday (January 6) Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey reported that disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged with raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in two separate incidents in 2013, USA Today reported. The expenditures amount to one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force, and sexual ba..

Australia Has Been On Fire For Months. Here's How To Help

Australia has been on fire for months, and the damage is nothing short of dire. Millions of acres have burned, more than 1,300 homes have been lost, at least 20 people have died and dozens more are missing, and millions of wild animals are gone because of the continuous wildfires, which have been classified as catastrophically dangerous since November 12, the Washington Post reported...

Nearly 200 Adults Have Died In Ice Custody Since The Agency Was Formed In 2003

Since its founding in 2003, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) business in the Department of Homeland Security has been the cause for plenty of contention and debate. As Quartz notes, the Department of Justice said in 2004 that ICE is meant to "prevent acts of terrorism by targeting the people, cash, and materials that support terrorist and criminal activities." However th..

2019 Saw More Mass Killings In The U.S. Than Any Other Year

For several people In the U.S., 2019 will forever be marked by loss, given that the nation saw more mass killings than in any year in the past. According to a database compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today, and Northeastern University, perpetrators in the U.S. Attacked people in 41 mass killings — defined as whenever four or more people were killed, according to USA Today...

What We Know About The Anti-Semitic Attack In Monsey, New York

On Saturday (December 28), a suspect stabbed five people in a rabbi’s house in Monsey, New York, as they were celebrating Hanukkah, the New York Times reported. The suspect fled the scene and was captured about a hour immediately following the attack, any time his vehicle was located by a license plate reader, according to CNN. New York Police Department commissioner Dermot Shea to..

Of Course Survivors Aren't Happy With The Harvey Weinstein Settlement

In October 2017, a pair of concurrent investigations gave platform to the dozens of girls who alleged that the producer Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed, assaulted, and, in some cases, raped them. Rumors about the producer’s actions had swirled around Hollywood for years, although plenty of people considered he would never be toppled. Then, a number of actors and former staff ..

#BeBest Who? Trump Just Bullied 16-Year-Old Climate Activist Greta Thunberg On Twitter

In the initial three hours of December 12, President Donald Trump tweeted or retweeted 89 times, on topics ranging from a “BIG DEAL with China” to “ANTIFA” to judge confirmations. His tirade of content also included an attack on 16-year-old environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who was named Time magazine's Person of The Year for 2019. “So ridiculous,” the President of ..

Greta Thunberg Is Bringing Her Fellow Climate Activists With Her

Once 16-year-old Greta Thunberg started skipping school in favor of sitting outdoors Swedish parliament in Stockholm last August, she was alone in her defiance. In the coming days, other people joined her protest — and that August 2018 strike would soon grow to be the worldwide Fridays For Future movement that has shut off city streets, mobilized millions of people prepare their v..

The Jersey City Shooting Perpetrators Targeted A Kosher Supermarket

On Tuesday (December 10), gun violence in Jersey City, New Jersey, left at least three civilians and one policeman dead, according to NPR. One of the two suspects had previously published anti-police and anti-Semitic posts, which investigators believe could have motivated the attack, the New York Times reported. Jersey City Mayor Stetven Fulop mentioned at a news conference on Wednes..

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