Extreme flooding throughout western Europe has left over 100 people dead and 1300 unaccounted for in Germany alone. Days before the extreme flooding German meteorologist showed models of flooding that would send their rivers erupting which has not been seen in over 1000 years. This extreme flooding is a prime example of the causes of […]
Last year, during the height of turmoil that happened in America amid the killing of George Floyd, Dave Chappelle took matters into his own hands to speak on the situations. Chappelle gathered a socially distanced crowd to perform a 27-minute long impromptu special titled “8:46”. Chappelle addressed many different topics that conflicted with him about […]
Two year old Kashe Quest from California has become the youngest member of Mensa. Mensa is a high IQ society that is open to people who score in the 98th percentile in a standardized and supervised or any other approved IQ test. At just eighteen months, Kashe’s parents noticed that she was advancing rapidly, using […]
Supported by civil rights organizations, the Biden administration is expected to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes and blunt wraps. It has been argued that forceful marketing of menthol products is ultimately imposing negative influences on black Americans and impressionable youth who are affected by this industry. Although this ban is being pursued, it could […]
Wednesday night, Manhattans district attorney’s office declared it would cease prosecuting prostitution and unlicensed massage. Although they will no longer prosecute for prostitution, they will still prosecute for other crimes surrounding prostitution in an attempt to combat those who exploit prostitution such as, patronizing sex workers, promoting prostitution and sex trafficking.
Yesterday Virginia became the first southern state to ban “gay and trans panic” as a defense for murder or manslaughter. The LGBTQ+ panic defense scheme is a “legal” strategy that asks a jury to find that a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is to blame for the defendant’s vicious reaction, including murder. This defense […]
Although it was first announced that Virginia would legalize marijuana beginning January 1. 2024, it has been acknowledged that this would be a drawn-out process, furthering racial discrepancies by associating legalization with when commercial businesses are set to open. Democratic executives in the Virginia House of Delegates are now pushing for marijuana legalization on July […]
Two well-known western brands, Nike and H&M, are confronting a boycott in China after multiple statements came out about forced labor within Xinjinag. China’s Xinjiang region is a leading global supplier of cotton. In January the United States declared that it would curtail all imports of cotton deriving from the Xianjiang region because of forced […]
Effective Jan. 1, 2022, Governor Ralph Northam has recently approved the Virginia Humane Cosmetics Act into law, outlawing all cosmetic derivatives of animal testing. Molly Armus, Virginia State Director of the Humane Society elaborates, “There are thousands of ingredients already available for companies to create great products without any new testing, animal or otherwise.”
It’s a miracle the Tokyo Olympic Games are still happening, after initially being canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and then eventually being reinstated to begin summer of 2021. Now, new news has arisen by way of Japanese news station Kyodo News stating “The Japanese government has concluded that welcoming fans from abroad is not […]