Supreme Court Upheld Policy Limiting Employers and Universities From Providing Birth Control
Cover photo courtesy of Planned Parenthood On Wednesday The Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration’s regulation that allows employers and universities to deny covering birth control based on religious or moral objections. The American Civil Liberties Union immediately denounced this ruling via Twitter, “We’ve said it and we’ll say it again: Religious liberty is no […]
Naya Rivera Went Missing in a Lake in Southern California
Naya Rivera, the actress best known for playing the role of Santana in the hit series Glee, was reported missing on Wednesday and is presumed to have drowned. Officials found her 4-year old son sleeping and unattended on a boat in Lake Piru in Ventura County, Southern California. In “Glee,” Naya Rivera played Santana Lopez, […]
The Police Officer Who Leaked a Video of His Colleagues Killing Eric Lurry Was Fired
TRIGGER WARNING: Police Violence. A whistleblower cop, Javier Esqueda, recently posted a video online of a Black man who was killed in police custody in January in Joliet, Illinois. In the video, Eric Lurry, the Black man, was recorded in the back seat of a police vehicle. While unconscious, Lurry’s mouth was stuffed with a […]
Harvard and MIT Sue Trump Over Foreign Student Policy
On Monday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it would require all international students on F-1 student visas to leave the United States if they took online-only courses in the Fall. With the still-growing cases of Covid-19 in the U.S., the announcement left international students with two options: either cut their studies short […]
Three Black Trans Women Were Murdered And One Went Missing Over July Fourth Weekend
This July Fourth weekend, three Black Trans women were murdered and one went missing. Draya McCarty and Shaki Peters, two Black trans women, were found dead near Baton Rouge in what appeared to be two separate incidents. A third woman, Bree Black, was found shot to death on Pompano Beach in Florida. Meanwhile, Dawn Manson […]
A BLM Protestor in Seattle Died After a Car Slammed Into Crowd
On Saturday night, 24-year old Summer Taylor (they/them) died after they were struck by a car in Seattle. Taylor was with a group of Black Lives Matter protestors on a closed freeway when a white Jaguar drove straight into them as well as 32-year-old Diaz Love, who remains in critical condition. Many have described Taylor […]
