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Vaping Is Making People Really Sick — And No One Knows Why

By Lauren Rearick A deadly lung illness with possible ties to vaping is sweeping the United States, and health experts cannot decide the cause. As of September 12, 2019, the Centers for Infection Control and Prevention confirmed that six people have died and 383 more are ill as a result of a mysterious infection considered to be connected to vaping, CNBC reported. With health expert..

An Alaska Teen Was Disqualified From Winning Her Swim Meet — Because She Had A Wedgie

By Lauren Rearick On Friday, September 6, a student-athlete with Dimond High School in Anchorage, Alaska, had every reason to celebrate: She secured a first-place finish throughout a state championship swim meet. Nevertheless the win was short-lived, as a referee right after disqualified her, alleging that her swimwear showed also much skin. According to the Anchorage Day-to-day New..

Don't Wait For Tragedy To Strike: Listen To Black Trans Women While They're Still Alive

By Jaelani Turner-Williams In August, The Advocate reported the death of Maurice “Reese Him Daddy” Willoughby, a black cisgender man who was in a relationship with a transgender woman named Faith Palmer. Willoughby had been subjected to bullying by other cis boys for his relationship, and later died by an apparent overdose soon after Palmer abandoned him. And though Willoughby’..

Everything You Need To Know About The Mess That Is Brexit

By Rachel Janfaza The United Kingdom has been negotiating a potential departure from the EU soon after voting to leave in a public referendum in June 2016 — a decision you probably know as Brexit. But three years later, the result of that referendum has been delayed — time, and time, and time again. Since the opening vote to leave, several rounds of negotiations, episodes of bo..

Why Were Hurricane Survivors From The Bahamas Kicked Off A Florida-Bound Ferry?

Any time Hurricane Dorian devastated The Bahamas on September 1, it tore off roofs, destroyed homes, flooded airports, lifted cars, left at least 70,000 people homeless, and took at least 43 lives, according to CNN. Soon following the Category 5 storm left the islands and began traveling north, nearly 1,500 people evacuated The Bahamas for Florida, a Customs and Border Patrol spokesp..

Could Supervised Consumption Sites Help Fight The Overdose Epidemic?

By Adryan Corcione Young folks are dying before they ever have a chance to recover from opioid addiction. A 2018 survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shows that approximately 1.9 million young adults aged 18 to 25 misused opioids in 2018. While use is relatively low among teenagers, overdose rates among young folks are still concerning: The Nati..

Forever21 May Be In Trouble, But That Doesn't Mean Fast Fashion Is Over

By Alyssa Hardy Forever21’s prevalence in the world of quick and inexpensive style is hard to overstate. Believed by several because the ultimate marker of any time as a trend has reached the masses, the brand’s heavy mall presence and low average price point made it famed referred to as any other label; Kanye West even name-dropped it in a lyric. Even so, the brand’s days may ..

Her Statement To Her Rapist Went Viral — Now Chanel Miller Is Speaking Out As Herself

It was jarring and straightforward and powerful: "You don’t know me, nevertheless you’ve been indoor me, and that’s why we’re here today." As soon as BuzzFeed published her letter on June 3, 2016, it sent shockwaves by means of the world wide web. The site identified the letter's writer as Emily Doe, a then-23-year-old woman who stood up in court to address her rapist, a 2o-..

Meet Samuel Sinyangwe, The Policy Analyst Using Data To Combat Police Brutality

By Michell C. Clark you could might not directly have the ability to recognize Samuel Sinyangwe by name, however you’ve absolutely seen him on your Twitter timeline. With over 160,000 followers, Sinyangwe is a driving force on the platform as well as a brilliant example of how people can use social media to both inform readers and spark a revolution. A information scientist and po..

Walmart Is Changing Its Gun Sale and Open-Carry Policies, One Month After El Paso Shooting

One month immediately after a perpetrator targeted a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and killed 22 people, the agency is changing its policy on gun sales. In a memo to personnel on September 3, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon reported that the firm will decrease its gun and ammunition sales. The store will also no longer permit shoppers to openly carrying firearms and has pressured Congress..

Third Strike Laws Have Been Hurting Entire Communities For Years. These Lawyers Are Trying To Change That

By Shammara Lawrence You hear information all of the time: the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world — a direct, decades-long result of harsh drug policies place on Earth out of the War on Illegal substances ignited by President Richard Nixon — with nearly 2.2 million people serving time as of 2016. Although what about the people who make up those number..

At Least 5 People In The Bahamas Were Killed By Hurricane Dorian: Here's How To Help

On September 1, Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the Bahamas. The Category 5 storm tore off roofs, lifted and destroyed cars, leveled homes, flooded airports, and killed at least five people, the New York Times reported. It was the second most powerful Atlantic storm ever recorded and has left a country already struggling politically teetering on the brink of instability. “The Bah..

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