That Racial Profiling Incident at Nordstrom Rack Apparently Wasn’t a First
A Nordstrom Rack in Columbia, MarylandTripplaar Kristoffer/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Danielle Stubblefield, 42, stood outside a Nordstrom Rack store feeling frustrated, desperately hoping to prevent what she believed was an instance of racial profiling from escalating. The police had been called on several black teenagers who had entered the…
“We Wouldn’t Need the Suicide Hotline If Dairy Farmers Were Getting Paid What They Deserve”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Brenda Cochran was a self-described “city girl” before she married her husband in 1973. He was a dairy farmer, so she joined him on a small farm in Pennsylvania. They’ve been working together since 1975. Cochran says that if she’d known how difficult dairy farming…
Trump Says He’s “Super Interested” in a Universal Flu Vaccine. His Budget Says Otherwise.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump, who in the past was skeptical of immunizations, has now expressed enthusiasm about the development of a universal flu vaccine. On Monday, in a STAT News interview with Bill Gates, the philanthropist reported that in a meeting last month, he had told Trump…
It Shouldn’t Have Taken Captain America and a Third-Grader to Make Me See White Privilege, But Here We Are
Chris Evans portrays Captain America in “Avengers: Infinity War”Marvel Studios Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every few weeks, Mark would come and visit me. This was six years ago. I was working as a program manager at an outpatient psychiatric clinic in Manhattan’s East Village. His parents both worked at…
How a Skeptical High School Teacher Learned to Take Teenagers Seriously
Mingo Nesmith/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs…
More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer. Here’s What Might.
siiixth/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. Guns. In a country with more than 300 million of them, a country that’s recently been swept up in a round of protests over the endless killing sprees they permit, you’d think I might have had more…