October 29, 2019 Over the years as he’s risen to celebrity status, the world’s most popular YouTuber, PewDiePie, has found himself in numerous controversies. Some of these have been directly his fault, others less so. That said, according to the YouTuber, his biggest controversy to date isn’t the time he said a racial slur on livestream…
Category: CULTURE & STORY
In 2019, women’s rights are still not explicitly recognized in US Constitution

By Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University Over nine decades, efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution to recognize women’s rights have faced major challenges. Congress finally passed such legislation, known as the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1972. The amendment would recognize women’s equal rights to men under the law. Despite concerted campaigns by women’s rights groups,…
‘Avengers: Endgame’ is nowhere near the worldwide box office record – here’s why

July 24, 2019 Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University Marvel’s gambit to propel “Avengers: Endgame” to become the top-grossing movie of all time finally paid off. The studio re-released the final film in its “Avengers” series earlier this month with extra footage and a post-credit tribute in an effort to pass James Cameron’s 2009 film…
Corporate Media ‘Culpable,’ Say Women’s Rights Advocates, for Bolstering Trump’s Abortion Lies

by Julia Conley Donald Trump believes that YOU will believe that doctors are monsters, women are completely craven, and Democrats have black souls, because that’s the only way his attacks make sense. Don’t prove him right by buying this BS. » Women’s rights advocates were relieved late Monday when Senate Democrats blocked an extreme…
What school segregation looks like in the US today, in 4 charts

July 20, 2019 Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a senator from California, has spoken about how she benefited from attending Berkeley’s desegregated schools. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day.…
This 70-Year-Old Grandma Cleaned Up 52 Beaches in 2018 to Help Our Planet

One 70-year-old woman from the United Kingdom, Pat Smith, has made huge contributions to saving our planet. July 19, 2019 Our planet is the only place we have to live, at least for the time being. Yet it’s not something that dawns upon us very often. We are blessed to receive all that we do…
Woman Named Marijuana Pepsi Defies Naysayers to Become a Doctor

July 19, 2019 A Wisconsin woman, whose given birth name is Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck, defied everyone who ever teased her when she earned her PhD in higher education. Yes, Marijuana Pepsi is her real name, but you can call her Doctor Vandyck. A Wisconsin woman, whose given birth name is Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck,…
As UN Climate Chief Urges Immediate Action to Save Planet, Extinction Rebellion’s New Book Gets Rushed to Press

« Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel. » May 30, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Hurry it up. That’s the message from both the United Nation’s climate chief and a climate mobilization group as they sound the alarm on the catastrophe that awaits if the world…
After Woman’s Car Breaks and She Can’t Afford a Tow, Teens Push It 4 Miles to Get Her Home

July 16, 2019 The teen boys say they would do it again in a heartbeat. Three Ontario teens are earning significant praise online after they selflessly interrupted their evening to help push a total stranger’s broken car about 7 kilometers (or around 4.3 miles) down the highway at four in the morning last week. …
Friday essay: the Australians who pioneered self-sufficiency, generations before Nimbin

By Rachel Goldlus, July 12, 2019 candidate in environmental history Whitlanders in the 1940s. Established in 1941 near the base of Victoria’s Mount Buffalo, this Catholic community celebrated the ‘dignity of manual labour’ and was led by a charismatic athlete and former…