by admin | May 12, 2017 | Featured, Feminism
Girls Who Code, the groundbreaking nonprofit working to close the gender gap in technology, has just received backing from one of the biggest private equity firms in the world: KKR. KKR—founded in 1976 by partners Henry Kravis, Jerome Kohlberg, and George...
by admin | May 2, 2017 | Featured
Prior to 2015, there was only one survey of gay immigrants in America. Just one. And it only included nine people, all of which were Latino. It was far from comprehensive and it was far from useful. But that was the only resource that the Seattle Counseling Service...
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured
The official count of homeless people in Dallas, Texas as of March 2017 is over 3,500 people, with at least 1,000 of those unsheltered. But it’s difficult to get a good count; the homeless population is not a cooperative one to census. Which has been a problem...
by admin | Apr 19, 2017 | Featured, Racism
There’s an alarming number of Americans who believe racism no longer exists. But talk to any person of color and they’ll tell you that it certainly does. Part of the reason people believe that racism is no longer an issue is because blatant, overt acts of...
by admin | Apr 18, 2017 | Featured, Homophobia, News
The newest Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) television series is finally here. It’s called The Book of John Gray. The reality show will document the life of Houston pastor John Gray, who leads the largest church congregation in the U.S. There’s just one small...
by admin | Apr 14, 2017 | Featured, Homophobia, News
The Chechan Republic, a small republic inside Russia’s current borders near the Caspian Sea, is a deeply unstable region, having gone through two violent civil wars since the ’91 dissolution of the Soviet Union. As a result, the area is fairly opaque to...
