[ad_1] It was a cold night in November 2016 when I first saw the sign. Long runs in the winter darkness were my response to post-election anxiety. Music both angry (DJ Shadow’s Nobody Speak) and somber (Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker) provided the soundtrack as I chewed over the president-elect’s racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, fact-denying…
[ad_1] If Fox News were our only source of reporting on Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which sprung up last week as part of the ongoing nationwide protests against police brutality, we’d all be terrified out of our minds. The Murdoch-owned channel has gone out of its way to demonize CHAZ — Photoshopping images of…
[ad_1] The protests that sprung up after the police killing of George Floyd on May 25 are now in their third weekend, and there’s no sign that they’re slowing down. Crowds gathered in major cities around the country (and the world) while residents in smaller localities also turned out to stand against systemic racism. And…
[ad_1] You wouldn’t be blamed if you haven’t heard about the Trump administration’s latest rollback of protections for transgender people. With the coronavirus pandemic, the economic crisis, and the continuing protests against the police killing of George Floyd, there’s a lot going on. On Friday, the government reversed an Obama-era regulation which makes it illegal…
[ad_1] After examples of discrimination, microagressions, emotional abuse, and tokenism at Crisis Text Line exploded on Twitter, the nonprofit’s board ousted its CEO. Nancy Lublin was terminated from her position and board seat Friday, according to a statement from the organization’s board, which former employees shared on Twitter. The firing comes after employees staged a…
[ad_1] It took two weeks of explosive, transformative national upheaval on race and policing before the head of America’s hyperlocal social network finally took a stand. “Let me say it unequivocally,” Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar said in a statement sent to millions of members in 200,000 U.S. neighborhoods Thursday. “Racism has no place on Nextdoor.” …
[ad_1] This article has been published to coincide with an episode of Mashable’s new podcast, History Becomes Her. Sofie Hagen is a Danish comedian who co-created the Guilty Feminist podcast with Deborah Frances White. Hagen is non-binary and uses pronouns she/they/he. Hagen is a fat acceptance campaigner and plus size fashion designer, who speaks candidly…
[ad_1] Scientists and academics are rising up against institutional racism. As people all over the world come together in solidarity to protest systemic racism and police brutality, a coalition of STEM professionals and academics are calling on their colleagues to dismantle anti-black racism within academia and STEM. That work starts with a one-day strike. On…
[ad_1] Power to the people. In the almost two weeks since the killing of George Floyd, who died in police custody on May 25, people all around the world have stepped up to make their voices heard. The message: this shit has to stop. Black Americans risk their lives just waking up every day because…
[ad_1] Amazon has faced no shortage of troubles in 2020, many of them self-inflicted. But here’s one thing done right, at least. One of the buildings located in company’s downtown Seattle campus has now opened its doors as a permanent homeless shelter built with displaced families in mind. It’s the product of an ongoing Amazon…