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Homeless people on their pets: 'She saved me as much as I saved her'
By Candice Pires
Heather, 22, Seattle
Before we found Poppy, I didnt feel like I had anything to wake up for. I was going through a rough time in my life and didnt care about myself. Id been homeless since my parents told me to leave our family house in June 2016 and was...
How To Help Migrant Parents & Children Who Are Separated At The Border
By Lexy Lebsack
US News
Ivanka Trump & Her Brothers Are Being Sued By The New York State ...
After conducting an extensive investigation, New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood has sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation including
Where Do Real Human Hair Extensions Come From?
By Sara Hendricks
Designers
For Kate Spade, Her Name Was Everything & Nothing
Today, Katherine Noel Frances Valentine died in her apartment in Manhattan, having taken her own life. Few would know her by the name she chose for
Retailers Drop 'CloudPets' Smart Toys Amid Hacking Concerns
By Casey Quackenbush
Amazon and Ebay are among the major retailers pulling a brand of smart toys from their sales platforms following warnings about cybersecurity weaknesses.
The brand, called CloudPets, was found last year to have been storing millions of owners voice recordings online, BBC reports.
CloudPets is a line of soft animal toys with...
Makeup in Lockup: Beauty, Power, & Danger in Women's Prisons
By Erika Stalder
Former Lowell inmate Natalie Hall, 40, who was released in 2017, was no stranger to contraband beauty, from dyeing her hair with stolen peroxide from the medical department, to applying colored pencils on her eyes in lieu of eyeshadow. Sometimes she was sent to confinement for it, but she says...
Kate Spade Found Dead, Designer Leaves Behind Daughter
By Erin Cunningham
Designers
For Kate Spade, Her Name Was Everything & Nothing
Today, Katherine Noel Frances Valentine died in her apartment in Manhattan, having taken her own life. Few would know her by the name she chose for
How 3 Teenage Women Created Apps Before Finishing High School & Earned Recognition From Apple
By Lexy Lebsack
Tech
Everything You Need To Know About The New iPhone Rumors
Now is not the time to buy a new iPhone. So long as your current model can survive the summer, you're better off waiting until September: That's when
Kanye West Talks Bipolar Diagnosis At 39
By Erin Cunningham
Designers
For Kate Spade, Her Name Was Everything & Nothing
Today, Katherine Noel Frances Valentine died in her apartment in Manhattan, having taken her own life. Few would know her by the name she chose for
'I cried all night': homeless women on their first night on the streets
By Candice Pires
Three women in Los Angeles and Seattle talk about how they ended up without a home and how they survived the first night
Michelle Ducoing, 24, Los Angeles
I spent my first night homeless in this Santa Monica playground.
I was 21 and had recently been let go from my job as a...
The Government Failed The 5,740 Puerto Ricans Who Died After Hurricane Maria
By Erin Cunningham
Designers
For Kate Spade, Her Name Was Everything & Nothing
Today, Katherine Noel Frances Valentine died in her apartment in Manhattan, having taken her own life. Few would know her by the name she chose for
Sudan: Teen Appeals Death Penalty for Killing Her Rapist
By Laignee Barron
Lawyers are trying to save the life of a Sudanese teenager sentenced to death for killing her husband while he tried to rape her. As the defense team appealed the court verdict on Thursday, a global petition has gained over one million signatures, as well as celebrity backing.
Naomi Campbell, Mira...
No link between homeless villages and crime rates, Guardian review suggests
By Thacher Schmid
Guardian study of two US cities finds crime is likelier to go down than up in neighborhoods that host city-sanctioned encampments
They stood in a rainy parking lot under fir trees, 60 homeless men and women, young and old, patient and weary. The glow of a single lightbulb outside the office...
School Shootings Are Becoming the New Normal
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
It has become a waking national nightmare, a recurring horror that we cant explain or defend but that we are condemned to repeat. We know it will happen again. We seem helpless to stop it.
The latest nightmare began on May 18 with the news: there had been another school shooting....
The Trump Administration Is Trying Yet Again To Defund Planned Parenthood
By Erin Cunningham
Although Republican attempts to defund Planned Parenthood via legislation have failed repeatedly, the Trump Administration has issued multiple rules or executive orders that undermine womens rights: This includes the reversal of the birth control insurance coverage mandate that came down in October of last year (which was blocked by a...
Santa Fe Shooting 22nd School Shooting Since Parkland
By Cory Stieg
"Our children have become collateral damage in a nation that allows its gun laws to be written by gun lobbyists. I am devastated for the Santa Fe community and for the families whose worst fear has become a reality," Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in...
The Trump Administration Just Rolled Back Rights For Transgender Prisoners
By Erin Cunningham
Its well documented that transgender people are at heightened risk of violence and heightened risk of sexual violence when they are incarcerated, Levi says. There are a number of cases Ive worked on where transgender women have been improperly housed in mens facilities and the result is, as you would...
We Must Include Black Voices to Effect Real Change on Gun Control
By Staff
Image via Wikimedia Commons.
This is an opinion piece by Matthew Kincaid, the founder of Overcoming Racism , an organization that seeks to build more equitable institutions through comprehensive race and equity training.
In the wake of the Parkland school massacre, the world has been in awe of how a group of...
Are LA hospitals really dumping homeless patients on the streets?
By Carla Green
With homelessness rising and shelter beds scarce, healthcare facilities are accused of abandoning people in Skid Row following treatment
Two days before Valentines Day, Santiago Tarver collapsed at a homeless womens center in Los Angeless Skid Row. He lay on the ground convulsing as staff members called an ambulance, which took...
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...