Baltimore City detention center has made headlines after a scandal revealed the inmates were running the show and had been employing guards to smuggle in cell phones, food and drugs. Mother Jones recently produced a list of the top 10 worst prisons and the horrors that occur within their walls. In Louisiana, one [...]
As a female born on the cusp of Generations X and Y, I grew up firmly believing that women and men are equal. I’ve visited different countries and developed relationships with people who were not raised in in an environment that reinforced gender equality. Yet, I have always considered myself an advocate for women, [...]
Anxious to find out what the outcomes of the Supreme Court arguments on Prop. 8 and DOMA a few weeks ago will be? Take a look at some of the ‘more likely’ outcomes developed by the Human Rights Campaign below.
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Money… (Photo credit: jah~)
We vote with our wallets. We affirm organizational missions and business practices over and over again based on where we spend our money. This creeps up suddenly, and while we think we know the image and corporate and social responsibility efforts of a particular company, we can often be [...]
Cross-posted from All Things E Is Facebook looking a little red this week? No, the world’s largest social media site isn’t experiencing a communist revolution, it’s coming alive in support of equal marriage.
It all started with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) who gave their normal blue and yellow logo a red makeover on [...]
One in three women will be raped or beaten in their life time. This statistic is depressing but also inspiring, especially if you are Eve Ensler. One Billion Rising is a movement created by Ms. Ensler, the author of the Vagina Monologues, to change this statistic and end violence against women.
One Billion Rising [...]
Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (ca. 1955) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This Monday, February 4th, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 100th birthday. In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, sparking a 381 day city bus boycott [...]
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