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Imagine looking up at the night sky and noticing new constellations, only to find out they are made up of data centers. This may sound like science fiction, but Google has announced plans to make this a reality beginning as early as 2027. The cost of constructing these data centers on Earth already runs into […]

European governments believe that by banning the hijab, they are saving Muslim women from repression and backwards religious practices. But in reality, they are taking away their freedom of expression. The hijab, a head covering worn in public by Muslim women, is not a sign of how much power men have over females, nor is […]

In honor of Tamir Rice’s 23rd birthday On a cold November afternoon in 2014, the world ended for a 12-year-old Black boy on  a Cleveland playground. His name was Tamir Elijah Rice. A child. A musician. A dreamer. A boy with an imagination wide enough to hold  galaxies. A boy who never got to become […]

Twelve days after the birth of my youngest son, my wife and I woke up at 2 a.m. in a pool of her blood. Under normal circumstances, a person would have likely traveled straight to the emergency room. At the time, however, there was nothing normal. My wife had just given birth, and so we […]

“And they pump so much stuff into those beautiful little babies, it’s a disgrace. I don’t see it. I think it’s very bad. They’re pumping — it looks like they’re pumping into a horse. You have a little child, a little fragile child and you get a vat of 80 different vaccines …” — Donald […]

Let us imagine a place in the Caribbean that does not appear on commercial maps — a private island that exists only for those who never learned what the word no means. In this hypothetical world, the locals call it nothing at all, and among the elite who frequent it, it remains unspoken — a […]

More than a third of the 271,493 girls and women reported missing in 2022 were Black, even though Black women and girls comprise only around 14 percent of the U.S. female population, according to federal data from the Office of Justice Programs. The Black & Missing Foundation notes that nearly 40 percent of missing‐persons cases involve people of […]

Few places on Earth are free from harmful chemicals. Recently, researchers found toxic levels of heavy metals in low-level clouds over the Eastern Himalayas. This area was once pollution-free. Toxic chemical pollution is a global reality. There are invisible threats in the air with every breath people take. Air pollution can harm people, even where […]

During the last 54 days of political bickering, the families of some 16 million children worried about having enough food to eat as federal food stamp payments, including Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, stopped on November 1st. The deal being struck in Congress will offer a reprieve from the hunger pangs through next year, but I need to tell […]

As the federal government is poised to end the longest shutdown in history, it is noteworthy that Rep. Erin Houcin (R-Ind.) recently claimed that reinstating Medicaid work requirements would restore the “dignity of work.” But there’s nothing dignified about an economy where wages stagnate, workplaces are unsafe, and nearly 29 million adults can’t afford or access quality healthcare.   If […]