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Starbucks Apologizes For Racial Profiling Incident
By Alyssa Coscarelli
Johnson wrote in his statement that Starbucks wants to reassure you that Starbucks stands firmly against discrimination or racial profiling. With Americans focused on the actions of a polarizing commander-in-chief and the continual reports of Black men and women dying at the hands of the police, the incident could not...
GoFundMe figures reveal thousands rely on site to avoid homelessness
By Erin Mccormick
There have been nearly 300,000 GoFundMe campaigns in the US related to homelessness over the last three years. Some see it as a sign of a broken social system and dwindling options for those in need
Dave Schulmans long decline toward homelessness began 18 years ago, when, as a reserve police...
People Are Wearing Red for Equal Pay Day. Here's Why
By Jennifer Calfas
Theres a reason why your coworkers are wearing red on Tuesday and it has to do with Equal Pay Day.
Employees advocating for an end to the gender wage gap are wearing red in honor of Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, April 10. For supporters, red symbolizes how women are...
Study: Plastic Waste in the Pacific Is Getting Worse
By Laignee Barron
Around 1.8 trillion bits of plastic waste have accumulated along a single stretch of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and California, an exponential increase since the 1970s, a new study shows.
Plastic debris typically collects in one of five patches around the world. The largest such repository, known as the Great...
ERPO Laws Gain Traction in the Gun Control Debate Post-Parkland
By Staff
In 1998, a disgruntled employee in Connecticut shot and killed four of his bosses. The incident was highly publicizedthe shooter reportedly chased the companys president into a parking lot before killing himand in 1999, the state became the first in the country to give law enforcement the legal authority to...
Thousands Flee as Syrian Troops Advance on Eastern Ghouta
By Casey Quackenbush
Thousands of civilians fled a town in Syrias Eastern Ghouta Thursday as government forces advanced on the rebel-held enclave. Its the largest exodus since the government ramped up its effort to take back the area, BBC reports.
More than 12,000 people escaped Hamouria, a town outside the capital, Damascus, after government...
Facebook Has 'Determining' Role in Rohingya Violence: U.N.
By Eli Meixler
A U.N. fact-finding mission has highlighted the role of social media networks, and Facebook in particular, in fueling hate speech against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar, telling the U.N. Human Rights Council this week that incitement to violence is rampant and unchecked.
Reuters reports that in an interim submission to the...
Michelle Obama Talks To R29 About The Power Of Girls' Education
By Ray Lowe
MO: My best advice to girls, including my own daughters, is do not be afraid to fail. So often, our own fear of failure is the thing that keeps us back. We think we have to be perfect, that if we make even the tiniest mistake, its a catastrophe. Thats...
Why International Women's Day Is March 8: A Radical Reason
By Suyin Haynes
As people around the world celebrate International Womens Day on Thursday an annual March 8 observance countries from Kyrgyzstan to Cambodia will officially honor womens rights and achievements across the political, economic, social and cultural spheres. The day has been designated as an official United Nations observance since...
Ben Carson's housing agency drops pledge to end housing discrimination
By Erin Mccormick
Department removes from its mission statement promises to build inclusive communities free from discrimination
The US housing department, helmed by the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, has proposed a new mission statement in which the pledge to build inclusive communities free from discrimination is removed.
The proposal comes just two weeks after the...
A Powerfully Articulate OpEd on Gun Control From a Parkland High School Student
By The Darling Team
The act of violence leaves us stunned; we hear of another mass shooting, the lives lost, the anger and brokenness behind an action so senseless and immediately the questions start filling in the gaps.
Although Darling is a platform primarily for conversations around and for women, sometimes conversations and events arise...
Senate Bill Does Not Address Gun Control
By Ray Lowe
Complicating things further, President Donald Trump has not been exactly clear about what he wants from Congress , which is especially confusing for members of his own party. Last week, he evinced emphatic support for comprehensive gun control measures even at the expensive of due process in a...
Michael Bloomberg: Donald Trump Should Accept Climate Deal
By Edith M. Lederer
(UNITED NATIONS) The U.N.s new envoy for climate action, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said Monday that President Donald Trump can become a great leader if he changes his mind about global warming and keeps the United States in the Paris climate agreement.
The billionaire media mogul expressed hope...
Turkish Police Use Teargas Against Women's March in Ankara
By Joseph Hincks
Womens rights marchers in Ankara met with tear gas and arrests Sunday as they gathered for a protest ahead of International Womens Day later this week.
After the marchers ignored calls to disperse, Turkish riot police fired tear gas and detained about 15 women, Agence France-Presse reports, citing Turkeys private Dogan...
Oscars Times Up Video Presented By Weinstein Victims
By Rebecca Farley
Hayek wrote an essay in The New York Times titled Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster, Too. Sciorra told Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker that Weinstein raped her in the early 90s. Judd was the very first actress to come forward in the bombshell New York Times piece that revealed...
This New Grocery Store Has An Aisle That's Entirely Plastic-Free
By Landon Peoples
For a while, we've been sensing that grocery shopping as we know it is changing . However, we didn't necessarily think that it was shifting in the direction of zero-waste and plastic-free stores. As excited as we are at the idea of this transition, it's clear that it's happening faster...
Down and out in Disneyland: study finds most LA workers can't cover basic needs
By Paulina Velasco
New survey finds three-quarters of employees dont earn enough for basic expenses, while one in 10 have experienced homelessness
Down and out in Disneyland: study finds most LA workers can't cover basic needs
Billie Taylor is in her fifth year working at Disneyland in California as a front-of-house employee at a restaurant...
Forget AzMERIT; Arizona students get other testing options
By Ricardo Cano
CLOSE Get the basics on Arizona's measurements of success. Wochit
SAT test preparation. (Photo: Nick Oza/The Republic)
Arizona high school students could skip the AzMERIT test and instead take college-entrance exams, but the schools will have to pay for it.
The Arizona State Board of Education on Monday approved a years-in-the-making "menu of...
Ways Everyday People Can Take Action on America's Homelessness Crisis Right Now
By Staff
Illustration via Tallulah Fontaine
At least two million youth will face a period of homelessness in 2018. Its a reality that can make dangerous situations -- including deteriorating health, domestic violence, or even human trafficking -- even more dangerous, This is especially true since formerly incarcerated, post-foster system youth, and youth-of-color...
Leading U.S. Immigration Agency Removes "Nation Of Immigrants" From Its Mission Statement
By Stacy London
USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna announced the change in an email sent to staffers and obtained by The Intercept. In it, Cissna criticized the use of "customers" in the previous mission statement and stressed that the "use of the term leads to the erroneous belief that applicants and petitioners, rather...
Myanmar Is Bulldozing Burnt Rohingya Villages: Rights Groups
By Todd Pitman
(BANGKOK) First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmars government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nations ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Satellite images of Myanmars troubled Rakhine...
Ivanka Trump Marco Rubio Paid Family Leave FMLA
By Sesali Bowen
Another thing Im grateful for is that I live in New York, one of only four states in the U.S. that has passed and implemented a paid family leave policy . (The others are California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.) It provides employees with up to eight weeks of partially...