Today, I joined Wal-Mart associates, the Making Change at Wal-Mart Campaign, Jobs with Justice, and others from the NOW Action Center in an exciting action. More than fifteen people gathered to request a meeting with Arne Sorenson, President and COO of Marriott International, Inc., and a board member of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
I’m not sure which possibility is more disturbing: that no one among Disney’s highly educated and qualified staff objected to this, that someone did notice and didn’t feel safe objecting, or that someone did object and got shot down. And these are the more charitable options!
Anna Holmes writes for The New Yorker: “On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, ‘The Hunger Games,’ logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and cr…
Donna Britt writes for The Washington Post: “I cried for Trayvon, his parents, the girlfriend he chatted with on his cellphone moments before he was shot. I wept for millions of black parents for whom his slaying was an excruciating reminder of their chi…
Courtland Milloy writes in The Washington Post: “[T]he conservative effort now underway to overturn the court’s decision is not just being waged on women’s reproductive rights, but on the black woman as a person.”