On Tuesday, June 5th, fashion designer Kate Spade took her life in her home in New York. The comments on news articles of her death are filled with people reminiscing about how her fashion touched their lives, including this tweet from Chelsea Clinton: “My grandmother gave me my first Kate Spade bag when I was […]
Comic books are an oft-underrated part of literary history, with fingers in every direction from novels to television and movies. And of course, the comics themselves. Stephen Geppi has built his career on publishing and distributing comic books, beginning with a small chain of comic shops in Baltimore in the 1970s. In 1982, he founded […]
“Twenty-six years ago is when Hannah was diagnosed with leukemia and for five years we didn’t know if we’d be keeping her or not,” said Dolly Parton on Thursday, May 17th, in an auditorium at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. “But Hannah now stands here as our chemo hero. She shows that miracles do happen with good […]
In his endless quest to donate his money almost as fast as he makes it, Bill Gates has announced another philanthropic project. This time, he is taking on systemic poverty. On Thursday, May 3rd, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that between now and 2022, they intend to spend $158 million on a variety of […]
Bette Wallace grew up in Washington state, and even after she moved to California, the beauty of Washington’s national parks remained an intrinsic part of her. With her passing, she helped to secure the future of those parks with a $1 million donation directed to Mount Rainier National Park, Olympic National Park, and North Cascades […]
McKinley School, in North Bergen, New Jersey, worked all February on their “Read Across America” campaign, which included a social media blitz and a number of YouTube videos. The school put in a good effort to get talk show celebrity Ellen DeGeneres to contribute to the campaign by reading aloud on video. Unfortunately, DeGeneres declined […]
Dressed in a black leotard fitted with white glitter and gems, with a bejeweled headdress and gold-headed cane, Beyoncé’s two-hour performance at Coachella was historic. No other black woman soloist has headlined for the California music festival. Guest appearances in her performance included her sister Solange and her old group-mates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. […]
Homelessness is a massive problem in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the average rent is between $3,000 and $4,000 a month. A comfortable minimum salary to live in the neighboring city of San Jose is $87,000 a year, or $42 an hour, but precious few make that much. Food service in the area pays […]
Stealing the show in Disney’s hit movie Black Panther is Shuri, a tech savvy princess who lives in the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Fans can’t wait to see her invent circles around Tony Stark and Peter Parker, but they also want her to affect the real world, too. There are few scientist role models for children […]
Richard Appiah Akoto is a junior high school teacher in Ghana who had a major obstacle. His students will have to pass an exam including computer skills questions, but his school hasn’t had any computers since 2011 due to budget shortfalls. He has over 100 students between 14 and 15, and only one of them […]