Late last week, Pepsi Co. released a new ad starring Kendall Jenner. If you haven’t seen the ad, let’s just say it was a bit … controversial. The commercial highlights protests and social injustices (many of which people are experiencing around the world). Jenner is…
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Trauma. It’s the thing no one wants to talk about, yet Netflix’s latest drama series “13 Reasons Why” brings the discourse right to the forefront of pop culture (finally). I read the book by Jay Asher of the same title probably as a 9- or…
Break out the high-waisted shorts, bucket hats and CamelBaks because Music Festival season is upon us. I, myself, am a huge advocate for music festivals. I think the idea of paying a set amount for a general admission ticket to see multiple artists is the…
About 70 percent of transgender people have been harassed in public restrooms, according to a 2013 survey by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. However, there are no confirmed reports of transgender people assaulting any person in a public restroom. By this…
On April 5, 16-year-old Carter Wilkerson of Reno, Nevada, tweeted to Wendy’s official Twitter asking how many retweets it would take to earn him a year’s supply of free chicken nuggets. Wendy’s responded with “18 Million,” to which Wilkerson replied “Consider it done.” The support…
April 14 may not be a nationally recognized holiday in the U.S., but every day is a celebration of funny, weird and wonderful events somewhere. Check out some of these cool unofficial holidays that occur this week, according to the Internet. Dolphin Day This…
Chance the Rapper has been in the news quite a bit recently, especially following his impressive Grammy win in February. It doesn’t look like he’ll be slowing down anytime soon, either. Last Friday, about a month after donating $1 million to the Chicago Public Schools…
Internet service providers (ISPs), the companies like AT&T and Comcast that you pay in exchange for access to the Internet, are now free to sell your personal information to advertising companies. Although there were rules that prohibited ISPs from selling the data they collected on…
A recently discovered 2002 interview with politics news outlet “The Hill” uncovered an interesting fact about Vice President Mike Pence – he will not dine with any woman other than his wife. On top of that, he refuses to attend a gathering that is serving…