Sitemap: 2017 March | Splinter

3/30/2017 - Detained DACA Recipient Claims ICE Won't Let Him Bring in Wheelchair and Medicine

3/30/2017 - North Carolina's Governor Tries and Fails to Sell the Anti-LGBTQ Bill He Just Signed

3/30/2017 - Lots of Men Avoid Women Like Mike Pence Does. They Just Don't Talk About It.

3/30/2017 - Mike Pence's Bizarro Rules About Women Have Empowered Man Babies Everywhere

3/30/2017 - Some Idiot College Kids Invited People to Round Up 'Dirty Illegals' on Facebook

3/30/2017 - There Was No Good Reason For Chris Brown to Be on Black-ish

3/30/2017 - Don't Be Fooled—The HB2 'Repeal' Is Still Terrible

3/30/2017 - Inside The Fight to Close the Deportation Pipelines That Sanctuary Cities Helped Build

3/30/2017 - Trump Just Can't Stop Suffering Huge, Humiliating Defeats Over His Muslim Ban

3/29/2017 - The GOP is apparently not done failing at health care

3/29/2017 - ICE has no plans to stop arresting people at courthouses anytime soon

3/29/2017 - ICE offers the weakest defense of its widespread raids yet

3/29/2017 - Does Melania Trump know who she's married to? Just wondering...

3/29/2017 - The white supremacist New York murder suspect's family history puts him even more to shame

3/29/2017 - The Trump administration decides it doesn't want to know about LGBTQ people after all

3/29/2017 - A Holocaust survivor denounced the head of ICE to his face in this powerful speech

3/29/2017 - How the makers of 'Shots Fired' are making America confront the reality of police brutality

3/29/2017 - Watch Maxine Waters declare: 'I am a strong black woman' with a message for 'women everywhere'

3/29/2017 - The first DACA recipient arrested under Trump's anti-immigrant crackdown will finally be released

3/28/2017 - Jorge Ramos: All the President's lies

3/28/2017 - Sean Spicer just went way over the line with a veteran black female White House reporter

3/28/2017 - Oh God, Lyft’s CEO found out about ‘woke’

3/28/2017 - Scarlett Johansson Defends Ghost in the Shell: "It's not whitewashing, I would never"

3/28/2017 - A DACA recipient just shot down everyone who says undocumented people don't contribute to America

3/28/2017 - Trump's Homeland Security chief had a mind-blowing reaction to tough questions about the Muslim ban

3/28/2017 - What we know (and don't) about what happens when guns are involved in hate crimes

3/28/2017 - One of the world's most famous artists is doing a huge new piece on immigration in America

3/28/2017 - Here's the insane amount of money a tiny fraction of Trump's border wall is going to cost

3/28/2017 - Comic: How Trump actually hates the working class

3/27/2017 - Botched Chicago ICE raid leaves man in serious condition from gunshot wound

3/27/2017 - A mother filmed the very invasive TSA pat-down of her teenage son

3/27/2017 - The tragedy of DC's missing girls highlights the mistrust between police and communities of color

3/27/2017 - Jeff Sessions just launched his most explicit threat yet to sanctuary cities

3/27/2017 - Watch the White House's appalling response to the white supremacist murder in New York

3/27/2017 - The new 'Power Rangers' movie features a rare depiction of people of color living with autism

3/27/2017 - ICE rounds up 26 parolees showing up for court-ordered community service

3/27/2017 - A North Dakota oil spill turns out to have been much, much worse than we thought

3/27/2017 - A North Dakota oil spill turns out to have been much, much worse than we thought

3/27/2017 - The amount of whitewashing in this new CBS show is officially off the charts

3/27/2017 - Women get shut out of the comics world all the time. A New York convention is changing that.

3/27/2017 - Catholic Church in Mexico issues a scorching condemnation of anyone who helps Trump build his wall

3/27/2017 - Another DACA recipient was arrested by ICE in Portland

3/27/2017 - NYPD cop who shot and killed unarmed black teen allowed to quit to avoid discipline

3/27/2017 - Aaron Sorkin: I'm white???

3/27/2017 - These shocking numbers show just how chilling Trump's crackdown has been for immigrant families

3/27/2017 - We now know just how much North Carolina's transphobic bathroom bill is going to hurt its economy

3/26/2017 - Bernie Sanders just showed Donald Trump how to keep a promise on health care

3/26/2017 - She Was an Ultraconservative Texas Christian. Then Kai Was Born and Everything Changed.

3/26/2017 - California lawmakers just unveiled another weapon in their fight against Trump’s deportation force

3/26/2017 - ABC’s 'American Crime' brings the Nahuatl language to network television

3/26/2017 - Investigation reveals yet another way Chicago police officers are getting away with misconduct

3/26/2017 - How new charges against the Chicago cop who killed Laquan McDonald could help him beat a murder rap

3/25/2017 - How Arkansas is recruiting Rotary Club volunteers to watch death row inmates die

3/25/2017 - More Rikers brutality cases come to light as opponents try to shutter 'dysfunctional' jail

3/25/2017 - 1 in 7 undergraduate women at UT Austin say they were raped

3/25/2017 - The NCAA just threatened to block North Carolina from tournaments until 2022 over transphobic ‘bathroom bill’

3/24/2017 - ICE quietly updates rule to make it easier to detain even more immigrants

3/24/2017 - Republicans just pulled their health care bill in one of Donald Trump's biggest disasters ever

3/24/2017 - Makonnen is opening up about why he came out, and it's so good

3/24/2017 - Watch John Lewis tear into the GOP's horrible health care bill as only he can

3/24/2017 - After the success of 'Moonlight,' black cinema is poised to continue glowing up

3/24/2017 - This week in God's will, according to Republican lawmakers

3/24/2017 - 'You Trump supporters happy?': Man films emotional scene of brother's ICE arrest in front yard

3/24/2017 - President Trump just approved a horrible oil pipeline—again

3/24/2017 - Kendrick Lamar goes in on Donald Trump in a brand new track

3/24/2017 - A transphobic 'free speech' bus hit the streets of New York—and was immediately vandalized

3/23/2017 - An Oregon resident just made gender identity history

3/23/2017 - Donald Trump was too busy honking a horn to care about his health care bill collapsing

3/23/2017 - James Corden's dumb idea for a Trump interview is not what anybody needs right now

3/23/2017 - Neil Gorsuch is an incredibly callous human being

3/23/2017 - John Mayer Veers Very Close to Becoming 'Woke' Before Playing Himself

3/23/2017 - ‘You have to come out of the closet twice’: What it's like to be queer and undocumented

3/23/2017 - Health care is a grueling maze. When you're overcome with suicidal thoughts, it's impossible.

3/23/2017 - How the California Values Act would build a 'big, beautiful wall' between ICE and police

3/23/2017 - Republicans' frantic effort to pass health care means your doctor visits or prescriptions may not be covered

3/23/2017 - Alphonza Watson is the eighth trans person reported killed in 2017

3/23/2017 - Solange gave the most brilliant quote about why she's a proud black intersectional feminist

3/23/2017 - This Donald Trump interview is the first thing that greets you in hell

3/22/2017 - Twitter is dragging Netflix’s latest whitewashed show back to hell

3/22/2017 - Teen immigrants accuse border agent of sexual assault in graphic account

3/22/2017 - A sickening white supremacist murder just allegedly happened in New York City

3/22/2017 - Chris Brown has inexplicably landed a guest spot on 'Black-ish'

3/22/2017 - New York City to ICE: stay out of our schools

3/22/2017 - How Trump's assault on immigrants could be giving rapists and domestic abusers more power

3/22/2017 - Kids in these California communities are testing three times the level of lead poisoning as Flint

3/22/2017 - Colin Kaepernick is being attacked for donating money to hungry people

3/22/2017 - Her spine is so curved she can barely stand. What will happen if she loses Medicaid?

3/22/2017 - Why Can't We Accept Straight Men Who Have Gay Sex?

3/22/2017 - Dear students trying to raise awareness about racism: do the opposite of this

3/22/2017 - Cartoon: If you liked Trumpcare, you'll love these other exciting new programs

3/21/2017 - U.S. Pays $1 Million to Family of Late Mexican Teen Made to Chug Liquid Meth by Border Agents

3/21/2017 - Cisgender high school student sues after 'humiliation' of changing in front of trans classmate

3/21/2017 - There's now one fewer state honoring Martin Luther King and a notorious Confederate icon together

3/21/2017 - A painting of Emmett Till has ignited a huge controversy over race and representation

3/21/2017 - Villains, antiheroes, and dystopia: How Hollywood's blockbusters helped me understand Trump

3/21/2017 - How Marvel's 'Iron Fist' missed its chance to tell an epic story about white privilege

3/21/2017 - Jorge Ramos: From Montezuma to Peña Nieto

3/21/2017 - UCLA just showed that March Madness trumps standing up for LGBTQ people

3/21/2017 - 'The Carmichael Show' is making an extremely bold choice about the n-word

3/21/2017 - Wyclef Jean was mistakenly detained by LA cops—and took video of the whole thing

3/21/2017 - When bad asthma and no insurance means committing a felony so you can breathe

3/21/2017 - How the Trump administration's immigration policies are silencing victims of domestic violence

3/21/2017 - Arkansas rejected a bill to allow gay parents to be listed on their kids' birth certificates

3/21/2017 - Judge says an ICE raid in Austin was pure revenge for its sanctuary city policy

3/21/2017 - The White House just launched a new set of travel restrictions targeting Muslim countries

3/20/2017 - How the Trump administration and Neil Gorsuch could be a toxic team for working women

3/20/2017 - Thandie Newton just highlighted one of the worst trends for British actors of color

3/20/2017 - Spring break douche patrol chanting ‘build that wall’ fails the most basic geography test

3/20/2017 - She was training with her dad for the LA Marathon. Then he was taken away by ICE.

3/20/2017 - The fear-mongering ICE report about sanctuary cities that Trump promised is here

3/20/2017 - How Black Lives Matter helped Angie Thomas find her voice and write the number one book in America

3/20/2017 - John Oliver tears into Trump's budget plan that's terrible for poor people of color

3/20/2017 - Drowning in debt to stave off the mental illness that destroyed her mother

3/20/2017 - How a congressional race in LA offers a glimpse into the future of elections in Trump's America

3/20/2017 - This nationwide program is using movies to strike back at Trump's Muslim ban

3/20/2017 - Four prison guards who may have boiled an inmate alive won't be charged with a crime

3/19/2017 - These Two Civil Rights Cases Are Sparking the Next Battle for LGBTQ Rights

3/19/2017 - Philadelphia cancels its Cinco de Mayo carnival because organizers don’t want it to be a target for ICE

3/19/2017 - White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney just told one of the biggest lies ever about universal health care

3/19/2017 - NY man who brutally beat 2 transgender women on St. Patrick’s Day charged with hate crime

3/19/2017 - Delaware declares Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month to combat rising hate crimes

3/19/2017 - This retired North Carolina police chief is furious after being detained at JFK because of his name

3/18/2017 - Trump picks anti-LGBTQ hate group leader and abstinence advocate to represent U.S. at global meeting on women’s issues

3/18/2017 - A Texas Republican lawmaker just told his town hall constituents: ‘You don’t know how to listen’

3/18/2017 - U.S. Border Patrol seeks contractors for Trump’s ‘beautiful’ 30-foot border wall

3/18/2017 - Trump’s attempt to defund Meals on Wheels and other programs for the poor backfires spectacularly

3/18/2017 - Sec. of State Tillerson thinks the media exists to serve at his leisure

3/17/2017 - Fashion just hit a much-needed milestone when it comes to inclusivity

3/17/2017 - The Trump administration just announced it's taking its fight to ban Muslims to the next level

3/17/2017 - A crowd just drowned this Republican senator in boos for her slavish support of Trump

3/17/2017 - This K-pop group's latest music videos shine an ugly light on Korea's plastic surgery obsession

3/17/2017 - Beauty and the Beast's new gay character isn't nearly as modern as Disney wants you to think

3/17/2017 - This video of Trump refusing to shake Angela Merkel's hand will make your skin crawl

3/17/2017 - Joe Biden slams Trump's terrible record on trans rights in passionate speech

3/17/2017 - Republican lawmaker says his colleagues loved his racist, anti-immigrant remarks

3/17/2017 - Someone has allegedly been peeing on Qur'ans in a New Mexico library

3/17/2017 - Cartoon: How Obama tapped Trump's phone and founded ISIS

3/16/2017 - Jussie Smollett’s New Video Might Be the Wokest Thing Ever Created in Human History

3/16/2017 - Trump's budget director just made an appalling statement about feeding poor children

3/16/2017 - Donald Trump's budget is so cruel it even got Julie Andrews pissed off

3/16/2017 - Five deported immigrants slam Trump's 'bad hombre' lie

3/16/2017 - California's top judge gave ICE a blistering rebuke about one of its most chilling new practices

3/16/2017 - Netflix enlists high-profile Asian gamers to promote show accused of anti-Asian racism

3/16/2017 - The U.S. women's hockey team is protesting over fair pay—so their bosses might just replace them

3/16/2017 - SXSW Has Been Screwing Over Artists Since Way Before the Visa Controversy

3/16/2017 - Our new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price already sounds as anti-vax as we feared

3/16/2017 - Trump's budget is great news if you sell fighter jets and bad news if you're hungry or poor

3/16/2017 - The diverse America Donald Trump hates just handed him one of his most humiliating defeats

3/16/2017 - A second judge just slapped down Trump's new Muslim ban

3/15/2017 - Trump's revised Muslim ban just got blocked in court

3/15/2017 - This man allegedly broke into an Arizona mosque and destroyed dozens of Qur'ans

3/15/2017 - ICE is using a deeply disturbing new tactic to arrest undocumented immigrants

3/15/2017 - Watch this boy's gut-wrenching speech about how anti-immigrant bigotry is harming his family

3/15/2017 - Hollywood conservatives have identified the true victims of our times: themselves

3/15/2017 - This sushi restaurant owner asked a terrible question about his Latinx customers

3/15/2017 - We just got our first glimpse of the new season of 'Master of None'

3/15/2017 - This college student just created a powerful, timely video game about crossing the border

3/15/2017 - How UCLA students hope to redefine ‘sanctuary campus’ to protect black, queer, and undocumented students

3/15/2017 - Chicago's outgoing U.S. attorney wrote a fiery last missive condemning the city's police

3/15/2017 - A horrible, transphobic bathroom bill just cleared a major hurdle in Texas

3/15/2017 - There's Something Very Wrong With How America Talks About the Military

3/15/2017 - Women Didn't Change The Marines. It Changed Us.

3/15/2017 - Donald Trump tries to start a feud with Snoop Dogg after tax returns leak

3/14/2017 - We finally got a look at a Donald Trump tax return on Rachel Maddow's show

3/14/2017 - This Latinx Republican just came out strongly against Trumpcare

3/14/2017 - This black author just gave a truly disturbing glimpse into the book world's whitewashing ways

3/14/2017 - We finally know the one thing Donald Trump doesn't want his name on

3/14/2017 - How to bribe Trump's White House

3/14/2017 - Kal Penn is lifting the lid on some of the grossly racist roles he's been asked to play

3/14/2017 - A building named for a Charleston shooting victim was just hit with a racist attack

3/14/2017 - We just got our first glimpse of how catastrophic Trumpcare would be for the most powerless Americans

3/14/2017 - Steve King just can't stop making vile, racist comments

3/14/2017 - Court documents reveal that the cop who killed Michael Brown used the n-word

3/14/2017 - These bands trying to go to SXSW have found themselves trapped in an immigration nightmare

3/14/2017 - Jorge Ramos: Donald Trump's three fables

3/14/2017 - This Texas Republican freaked out at his own constituents at a recent town hall

3/14/2017 - North Carolina's ex-governor is whining about how his transphobia has hurt his job prospects

3/14/2017 - Cartoon: A handy guide to Obamacare vs. Trumpcare

3/14/2017 - Steve King has now officially become a white supremacist icon

3/13/2017 - These Ava DuVernay tweets from the 'A Wrinkle In Time' set make us desperate to see the movie

3/13/2017 - This elementary school is under fire for a wildly misguided assignment about slavery

3/13/2017 - This Afro-Latina teen thinks the struggle for trans rights needs more voices

3/13/2017 - I found the one huge flaw in the smash hit 'Get Out'

3/13/2017 - Here's how white supremacists are recruiting on college campuses in Texas

3/13/2017 - This Democratic lawmaker wants to make sure everything ICE does is caught on camera

3/13/2017 - 'Ghost In The Shell' tried to start a meme. People made it into a glorious attack on whitewashing.

3/13/2017 - Texas lawmaker perfectly trolls her anti-abortion colleagues with a male masturbation bill

3/13/2017 - The murder of a trans woman of color has taken an overdue step toward justice

3/13/2017 - Steve King is very happily doubling down on his white supremacist views

3/13/2017 - This disturbing video shows a CA police officer beating a suspect and pulling a gun on witnesses

3/13/2017 - Kellyanne Conway tries out a bold new defense of Trump's bizarre spying allegations against Obama

3/12/2017 - Meet the Woke Misogynist

3/12/2017 - Iowa Rep. Steve King just tweeted the most vulgar comment of his budding white nationalist career

3/12/2017 - Newly released surveillance video casts doubt on Ferguson police narrative of Michael Brown’s death

3/12/2017 - The Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bill is a scheme to transfer even more wealth to the rich

3/12/2017 - Laverne Cox talks about male privilege and a true gender revolution

3/12/2017 - Scarlett Johansson’s Ivanka Trump on ‘SNL’ is the perfect feminist for the One Percent

3/11/2017 - Federal judges just ruled that Texas Republicans illegally gerrymandered district maps to disenfranchise Latinx voters

3/11/2017 - Donald Trump just fired one of the most successful federal prosecutors in the country

3/11/2017 - Trump’s revised Muslim ban just got handed its first blow in court

3/11/2017 - Amal Clooney is trying to stop genocide and instead we’re talking about her ‘blossoming baby bump’

3/11/2017 - How these two-spirit Indigenous activists took their fight to the White House—and finally found acceptance

3/11/2017 - This explainer by the person who ran Medicare and Medicaid services shows why the GOP health care plan is a disaster

3/10/2017 - Gabourey Sidibe has some scorching thoughts about the body-shaming BS she deals with

3/10/2017 - Donald Trump suddenly thinks the jobs numbers are real now that he's president

3/10/2017 - The GOP wants to destroy the mental health system they say could stop gun violence

3/10/2017 - The DACA recipient detained by ICE after speaking to the press is finally getting released

3/10/2017 - Why this man spent nearly a decade in prison for a murder he didn't commit

3/10/2017 - An ICE detention facility in California has been housing inmates in horrific conditions

3/10/2017 - New bill seeks to ban use of taxpayer funds to detain or deport DACA recipients

3/10/2017 - Awkwafina talks feminism, Hollywood, and her complex feelings about whitewashing

3/9/2017 - I will tell you right now that this is not how health insurance works my man

3/9/2017 - Super excited 16-year-olds in California can now pre-register to vote online

3/9/2017 - Mike Pence tried to convince Latinx leaders that Trump is their friend. It was weird.

3/9/2017 - The story behind thousands of immigrant detainees suing a private prison over 'forced' labor

3/9/2017 - All the reasons why Michael Bennett is your new favorite NFL player

3/9/2017 - Paul Ryan tried to sell the GOP plan to replace Obamacare—and instantly became a meme

3/9/2017 - Talking to 11 NYC women (and one man) on Women’s Day about striking, Trump, and why capitalism sucks

3/9/2017 - The most popular movie in the world is a dystopian tale about the American immigration crisis

3/9/2017 - No, an eco-friendly design will not make Trump's border wall any less awful

3/9/2017 - The top YA book in the country is a stunning novel inspired by Black Lives Matter

3/9/2017 - Standing Rock activists just released their first, brutally effective #NoDAPL TV commercial

3/9/2017 - The first state lawsuit against Trump's new Muslim ban just dropped

3/8/2017 - Here are the voices of women who couldn't strike

3/8/2017 - A young Native American leader on why feminism and fighting for the planet go hand in hand

3/8/2017 - Flint native Claressa Shields is returning to Michigan to make boxing history

3/8/2017 - Scenes from the women's strikes and rallies taking place all over the world

3/8/2017 - The NYPD just arrested a group of Women's March organizers outside of a Trump building

3/8/2017 - Colombia's female guerrilla fighters are raising kids in a war-free country—and terrible conditions

3/8/2017 - Watch this queer Texas woman brilliantly shred the argument for a transphobic bathroom bill

3/8/2017 - The Miami Femmes can't afford to strike today—so they're protesting ICE tonight

3/8/2017 - This guy found the most misguided way to support the Day Without A Woman

3/8/2017 - Cartoon: How Trumpcare will totally make people healthy

3/8/2017 - The Statue of Liberty mysteriously went dark just in time for the Day Without Women

3/8/2017 - Donald Trump had the nerve to mention women today

3/8/2017 - Why we have mixed feelings about participating in the Women's Strike

3/7/2017 - 'I have love on my side': Read Gavin Grimm's inspiring words about his fight for trans rights

3/7/2017 - Here's the perfect thing to tell people if you're joining the Women's Strike

3/7/2017 - International Women's Day has been stripped of its radical roots. That's about to change.

3/7/2017 - Jason Chaffetz should never make any decisions for working class people

3/7/2017 - SXSW has rescinded its incendiary immigration policy after a huge backlash

3/7/2017 - 'Fearless Girl' joins the Wall Street bull for International Women's Day

3/7/2017 - Jorge Ramos: The press is not the enemy

3/7/2017 - The Trump administration is pulling out of a fight against North Carolina's infamous anti-trans law

3/7/2017 - This New Jersey town voted not to build a mosque after an Islamophobia-riddled public meeting

3/7/2017 - 'Stonewall is a pro-cop bar': The paradox of being an LGBTQ gentrifier

3/7/2017 - This GOP congressman just made one of the grossest comments about health care you will ever hear

3/7/2017 - The White House has made a monstrous offer to Planned Parenthood

3/7/2017 - A lawyer who got Trump's first travel ban halted says his new one won't hold up in court either

3/6/2017 - Another entire school district is shutting down on Wednesday because so many women are striking

3/6/2017 - ABC allegedly dropped a show about a Muslim family after Trump’s election

3/6/2017 - Chance the Rapper just did something amazing for Chicago Public Schools

3/6/2017 - Ben Carson just made a hideously off-base comment about slavery in America

3/6/2017 - SCOTUS just punted on the trans 'bathroom bill' case. What now?

3/6/2017 - The U.S. soccer team has issued harsh new guidelines about standing for the national anthem

3/6/2017 - These are some of the most devastating reactions to Trump's revised Muslim ban

3/6/2017 - Viola Davis just gave yet another masterpiece of an awards speech

3/6/2017 - Trump's revised Muslim ban has some key changes—but its biggest, most repugnant problem remains

3/6/2017 - What happens when a devoted activist turns out to be a convicted rapist

3/6/2017 - Muslim students came to visit this Republican lawmaker. His response was wildly Islamophobic.

3/6/2017 - The Supreme Court just declined to hear a major trans rights case—thanks to Trump

3/6/2017 - Talking to Planned Parenthood about the huge steps they've taken to help trans people

3/6/2017 - Donald Trump's revamped Muslim travel ban is reportedly coming today

3/6/2017 - Trump's new Obama conspiracy theory is looking more insane with each passing second

3/5/2017 - Los Angeles immigration officials detained and separated a family from Afghanistan who have legal U.S. visas

3/5/2017 - A Colorado judge just granted 62,000 former immigrant detainees the right to sue GEO Group over forced labor, enrichment

3/5/2017 - Watch ABC’s Martha Raddatz annihilate White House spokeswoman over Trump’s wiretap claims

3/5/2017 - ICE just deported this single father of 3 celebrating his son’s 17th birthday

3/5/2017 - Watch Octavia Spencer give Attorney General Jeff Sessions a ‘special pie’ in her ‘SNL’ debut

3/4/2017 - White attacker shoots Sikh man in Washington State after yelling, ‘Go back to your own country’

3/4/2017 - Watch Austin #March4Trump attendees greet Mexican-American Trump fan with chants of ‘Build That Wall!’

3/4/2017 - KKK-friendly DA and disgraced ex-FBI guy will ‘train’ Louisiana cops in anti-Muslim witch-hunting

3/4/2017 - Court documents reveal USA Gymnastics’ atrocious handling of sexual abuse allegations

3/4/2017 - Tin-foil Trump deflects latest crisis by comparing Obama to Watergate, McCarthy

3/3/2017 - Mothers and their children could be ripped apart at the border under shocking Trump proposal

3/3/2017 - The latest pipeline fight is in Republican Amish country

3/3/2017 - Alabama movie theater boycotting Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' over its new gay character

3/3/2017 - Watch this Texas sportscaster's amazing defense of the trans boy who was forced to wrestle girls

3/3/2017 - Your actor/rapper boyfriend Riz Ahmed just gave a must-watch speech about representation

3/3/2017 - The 'Day Without A Woman' is causing this entire school district to shut down next week

3/3/2017 - Undocumented parents are rushing to find guardians for their kids in case they're deported

3/3/2017 - California residents are being hit with racist graffiti attacking their immigration status

3/3/2017 - Watch this Spanish lawmaker utterly destroy her loathsome colleague when he tries to bash women

3/2/2017 - DACA recipient arrested after talking to the press will reportedly be deported without a hearing

3/2/2017 - This heartbreaking video shows a father being arrested by ICE in front of his wife and daughter

3/2/2017 - What racist thing is this congressman trying to say?

3/2/2017 - Colombia’s guerrillas started to disarm this week. But the road to peace is still treacherous.

3/2/2017 - ICE finally released the undocumented woman they detained while she was battling a brain tumor

3/2/2017 - Colin Kaepernick has reportedly made a major decision about his national anthem protest

3/2/2017 - Read the moving testimonies of 101 trans people who wrote to SCOTUS in support of Gavin Grimm

3/2/2017 - 'Moonlight' director Barry Jenkins is already onto his next project—and it sounds amazing

3/2/2017 - America Chavez, Marvel's first queer Latina superhero, is definitely pro-punching Nazis

3/2/2017 - Hip hop is now taking center stage at one of America's most important cultural organizations

3/2/2017 - We now live in a world where Ben Carson runs a major portion of the federal government

3/2/2017 - We didn't need Russia to tell us Jeff Sessions was unfit to be attorney general

3/2/2017 - Trump is ridiculously short on cash to start building his big, beautiful border wall with Mexico

3/2/2017 - The murders of trans people are a crisis we can't ignore

3/2/2017 - Top Democrats demand Jeff Sessions resign for 'lying under oath' about meeting Russian ambassador

3/1/2017 - This DACA recipient was hauled away by ICE just hours after speaking at an immigrant rights rally

3/1/2017 - This Michigan community rallied around a man who was about to be deported—and won

3/1/2017 - A Trump-loving homophobe has been arrested for a Florida gay-bashing attack

3/1/2017 - Ivanka Trump helped draft her dad's clean water promise while he gutted clean water protections

3/1/2017 - Calling Trump's speech 'presidential' is the first step to normalizing fascism

3/1/2017 - The Census may be about to undo decades of discrimination against people from the Middle East

3/1/2017 - It only took 80 years for Disney to give us its first gay character

3/1/2017 - The hidden Swahili message in 'Get Out' the country needs to hear

3/1/2017 - Talking to two teens who spent Trump’s address watching the man who deported their mother

3/1/2017 - Here's what Barry Jenkins would have said if 'Moonlight' was allowed to win an Oscar the right way

3/1/2017 - Trump is delaying his revised Muslim ban for a terrible reason

3/1/2017 - Don't believe the pundits. Donald Trump's awful speech to Congress was anything but a 'pivot.'

3/1/2017 - Here's what it looks like when 'law and order' laws pit red states against liberal cities