When she’s not in class studying Media, Culture, and Communications at New York University, Valeria Podobniy [https://www.instagram.com/valeria/?hl=en] is putting this education in cultural and tech literacy to good use. She doubles as a student and an influencer on Instagram, where she has amassed over 40,000 followers. Today,...
"Community groups and nonprofits play... a crucial role... but they are often not seen or appreciated."
"It is hard not to internalize these messages, try hard as one might."
I remember the first time I saw them. They were sauntering around Harold Square with their bubblegum pink hair, white patent leather platform boots, and slim-fitting nurses outfits. As a recent transplant to New York City at the time, I had no idea why these two people were dressed as such. Maybe they were headed...
Remarkable only because it’s officially prohibited at some level or another...
Decades ago, the Berklee College of Music in Boston [https://www.berklee.edu/] was commonly known as “the Jazz School” or some other iteration of a Jazz Institute. More recently, it has been a haven for serious students of all styles – Pop, Rock, Fusion, Funk, Hip Hop and every imaginable kind of Latin Music inflection....
Art has always been a way for people to express the need for social justice. Maya Mercer [https://www.instagram.com/mayamercer.studio/?hl=en] uses her artistic abilities to help one group in particular–the teenagers wrought by class struggle in her rural neighborhood. Often left ignored, Mercer employs art to demonstrate their innocence...
The public image of vaping has taken hard hits in recent months. This summer marked the rise of vaping-related illnesses and even deaths, bringing this, still fairly new, recreational activity and its practitioners under public scrutiny. Calls for increased legislation and crackdown on underage vaping in communities all over the country even caused President Trump...
Jack Herer Foundation continues work for universal education about hemp and its multitude of uses.
The mission of the summit is to emphasize the sentience of animals and the implications for how the industry should be reformed.
As Jeff Bezos becomes the richest man in modern history, a rapidly increasing awareness of what capitalism has done to the planet comes too.
Manhattan is engulfed in an environmental frenzy, as people from all over the globe have...
In 2011, Tony Elumelu, founder of the Nigeria-based United Bank for Africa, introduced the concept of “Africapitalism.” Offered as a solution to “save the continent,” [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/12/africa-africapitalism-tony-elumelu] Africapitalism maintains that it is possible, in fact necessary, for African entrepreneurs to develop the continent’s private economic sector while...
