News From A Colorful Perspective
A nonprofit called Springboard to Opportunities, is giving 20 Black single mothers a year of universal basic income, $1,000 a month – and it has helped support major improvements to their lives. The program is in Jackson, Mississippi. It originally helped low-income people write resumes and workforce development, but Aisha…
When a disgruntled employee opened fire at Virginia Beach municipal center on May 31, Ryan Keith Cox, an account clerk who had worked in the public utilities department for more than 12 years, saved several lives. Because of his heroics, Cox will have a post office named after him. The post office,…
After a long consideration, Phoenix, Arizona has now decided to take a step forward on gun control. Phoenix police officers must now document every instance in which they point a gun at a person and then have that document reviewed by their boss. Other cities have similar requirements: Dallas, Baltimore,…
David Hogg, who is now 19, is one of the Parkland High School mass shooting survivors who took over the political scene with some fellow survivors and classmates in 2018. Hogg, who co-founded March for Our Lives, has thrown the weight of the organization behind a new and ambitious gun-control…
Renken Dentistry is giving people with disabilities something to smile about: career opportunities. Josh Renken has owned his practice since 2003 and just last year, after expanding his practice to Texas, instituted a vocational program for people with developmental differences. Inspired by his daughter, who has a developmental difference, this…
When Gavin Grimm was a sophomore student at Gloucester High School four years ago, he garnered national attention when he first transitioned and began using the boys’ restroom at school and dressing like a male, and then he alleged the county school board put in place a policy that banned…
Adult victims of childhood sexual abuse now have a chance of justice under a new New York law, the Child Victims Act, that will suspend the statute of limitations to bring up civil lawsuits against abusers. This filing period, which will be in effect for one year, is known as…
This past Friday, a federal judge awarded Taylor Dumpson $725,000 of a $1.5 million lawsuit she filed against The Daily Storm founder and publisher Andrew Anglin earlier this year. Anglin orchestrated a plan to have racist trolls harass the young woman. The “troll storm” made her fear for her life….
Storm guard Alysha Clark, a talented basketball player who was drafted in 2010, makes some of her biggest contributions off of the court. Through annual toy drives, Clark has donated over 10,000 toys to Seattle’s Children’s Hospital, including over 2,000 this year. According to the Associated Press, Clark wanted to…
Friday saw a win for the LGBTQ community and all children in the Illinois public school system when Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law a bill that makes sure LGBTQ history will be added to the curriculum. It will go into effect in July 2020. “In public schools only, the teaching…
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