Equal Pay Day is today, April 4th! It was started in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity to draw attention to the gap between men and women’s wages. Equal Pay Day is always held in April to represent how far into the year women have to work to make what men made in…
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The nominations for the 58th Grammy Awards are in! Kendrick Lamar leads the pack with eleven nods including Album Of The Year with his seminal LP, To Pimp A Butterfly, which was recently named as the album behind President Obama’s favorite song of 2015. Taylor Swift, who shares a nomination with Lamar in the Best…
Last week, Alice Ehrenfried of Southampton, UK, launched a petition on Change.org demanding all major brands and magazines to quit condoning Richard’s crude work ethics. The petition is titled “Vogue, H&M, Mango, Supreme, & all other brands: Stop using alleged sex offender Terry Richardson as your photographer”. It currently boasts 9,000+ signatures, with a goal…
Before officially stepping down from his position as Defense Secretary, Leon E. Panetta has lifted the ban on women in combat, a groundbreaking move that will give them the chance to be decorated and compensated as equal members of the armed forces. Panetta, who is leaving his post after 18 months on the job, is…