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Everyone Has A Role In Fighting White Supremacy And Online Hate

By Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Around the world, a very specific and pervasive sort of hatred is on the rise once more. While white supremacists have routinely existed across the United States and in other parts of the world, they’ve been growing in number and becoming more violent in recent years. They’re far from the only sor..

TikTok Censored Posts By Disabled, Fat, And LGBTQ+ People

One-third of all people between the ages of 12 and 17 have been bullied online — a statistic that only gets more devastating for young people who also belong to marginalized groups. However while plenty of groups have tried to put an end to the epidemic, there has nevertheless to be a concerted solve — and then some solutions seem to backfire more spectacularly than others. In a..

We Stormed The Harvard-Yale Game — There Is No ‘Right Time’ To Fight The Climate Crisis

By Carl Denton and Jaden Deal, Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard The Yale Musical group marched around the field waving flags while 150 of us watched anxiously. Following weeks of planning, groups of Harvard and Yale divestment activists sat scattered while in the stands, waiting for the signal to enter the field. Our minds raced: Was each person ready? How would the police respond? Once ..

Everything You Need To Know About The Camps In China, As Told By A TikTok Beauty Tutorial

you could learn a lot from makeup tutorials — how to mixture your contour, put on the best cat eye, or maybe, if you’re watching17-year-old Feroza Aziz, learn about the genocide against Uyghur Muslims in China. On Saturday (November 23), the high school junior from New Jersey uploaded a video of herself in her bedroom holding an eyelash curler. “Hi guys, so I’m going to teach..

The Climate Crisis Affects Each Community Differently — How Three Activists Are Fighting Back

By Angely Mercado Nakabuye Hilda Flavia watched as her residence nation of Uganda suffered droughts, torrential rains, and deforestation, and wondered what she may do about it. The country is particularly weak at risk of the effects of the climate crisis due, in part, to their dependance on the agricultural industry, and the university student in Kampala wanted to take action yet did..

The Activist Who Helped Migrants In The Desert Was Found Not Guilty

Every year, hundreds of people die as they try to cross the dangerous desert on the U.S./Mexico border. In 2004, a coalition of community and faith groups joined with each other to combat that epidemic and formed No More Deaths, a nonprofit in which volunteers hike 30 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico border and leave water, food, socks, blankets, and other supplies for traveling mig..

Candidates Aren't Taking Money From PACs Or Lobbyists — But What About Ex-Boyfriends?

Political debates probably aren't the opening place that comes to mind as soon as someone brings up #RelationshipGoals. But 2020 hopeful Amy Klobuchar appealed to that base at the fifth Democratic primary debate on Wednesday (November 20) any time if she trotted out one of her go-to punchlines: that in her first Senate race, she raised $17,000 from ex-boyfriends alone. "My first..

Everything You Need To Know About The Racist Attacks At Syracuse University

Far less than two weeks prior, racist and anti-Semitic activities — including graffiti, swastikas, hate speech, and an airdropped manifesto — have been sweeping across Syracuse University, leaving students, faculty, and even federal agents clamoring to find out who is in back of the attacks, and how, the New York Times reported. There have been at least a dozen racist incidents a..

Native Peoples Are 19 Times More Likely To Lack Access To Safe Water

For more than 2 million people In America, accessing safe water isn't as simple as turning on the faucet in the kitchen or washroom. Several people live near contaminated water sources and require to travel for miles to pay for access to dedicated taps. Nevertheless up until Monday (November 18), there was little statistics on the scope of the water crisis In America — which is why..

Authorities Are Responding To A School Shooting In Santa Clarita, California

Los Angeles area police officers responded to Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California on Thursday (November 14) following reports of shots fired at the school, according to NBC News. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Undersheriff Tim Murakami tweeted on Thursday morning that a couple of people have been injured and all of the area schools will be locked down up until..

Young DACA Recipients Aren't Giving Up The Fight

By Jessica Suriano Any time 20-year-old Deyanira Garcia heard that the Trump administration proposed to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program back in 2017, she cried in her community college’s library. Right now that the question of DACA’s legality has reached the Supreme Court, her anxiety about her future as a undocumented student in the U.S. Has only go..

Lili Reinhart, Megan Thee Stallion, Noah Centineo And More Faves Are Your '100 Next'

By Lauren Rearick Billie Eilish, Camila Cabello, Lil Nas X, and Noah Centineo are well on their way to changing the world with their work — and they’re in some very illustrious company. Your faves are among 100 people named to Time magazine’s 100 Next list, which also features late-night hosts Desus and Mero, politicians Pete Buttigieg and Josh Hawley, athletes Aly Raisman an..

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