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Just in case you aren’t caught up on new episodes of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, here’s something to inspire you. The Disney XD series recently aired multiple same-sex kisses in the episode “Just Friends,” Mashable reported Tuesday. The episode is a historic move for the network, marking the first same-sex kiss in a Disney…
Over the last five months, there’s been a steadfast movement to boycott stores that carry Trump family products. Amid the visible — and effective — #GrabYourWallet campaign, there’s been another type of advocacy rumbling, this one targeting companies for where they advertise. An anonymous group of activists who call themselves Sleeping Giants have been working…
“This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it,” wrote Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, in an email to his staff the other day. In that same email, which he sent out after Bloomberg published a video showing him berating an…
There is no such thing as the “alt-left.” But in a piece for Vanity Fair, James Wolcott pretends otherwise: Disillusionment with Obama’s presidency, loathing of Hillary Clinton, disgust with “identity politics,” and a craving for a climactic reckoning that will clear the stage for a bold tomorrow have created a kinship between the “alt-right” and an alt-left….
Aude Guerrucci-Pool/Getty Images There is an old African proverb that has been passed down from the ancestors through generations of black people that goes like this: “Never trust anyone who lets people put their feet on the couch.” After meeting with the Trump administration for two days and reviewing Cheddar Bob’s executive order on HBCUs,…
A member of the European Parliament votes to lift parliamentary immunity of Marine Le Pen during the plenary session at the EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, March 2, 2017.(Photo: STEPHANIE LECOCQ, EPA) cxenseparse_start A Polish lawmaker sparked a backlash in the European Parliament after he said women should not have equal pay to men because they…
Donald Trump has announced he will form a new agency to deal with immigrant crime and pledged to publish a regular list of all crimes committed by non-US citizens. During a landmark speech to Congress markedly softer in tone than his inauguration address, in which he dialled back his trademark brash rhetoric, he revealed that…
‘We’re in this climate where acts of hate are happening everywhere,’ local rabbi says. Gunshot fired at Adath B’Nai Israel Temple synagogue in Evansville, Indiana. Screen capture, 14News.com A gunshot was fired through the window of an Indiana synagogue in what the FBI are reportedly investigating as a hate crime. >> Get…
President Trump condemned the wave of bomb threats that have been hitting Jewish community centers across the U.S. during his address to Congress Tuesday night — hours after he allegedly suggested it could be coming from within the Jewish community itself. “Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as…
In the black community, many different opinions abound regarding the usefulness of Black History Month. For some, it is viewed as a necessary and critical tool for cultural celebration and propagating the importance of our collective historical achievements, which otherwise would go unnoticed. For others, it feels like a reductive display of forced lip service…