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There’s a new group offering an old school form of social connection — no screens required. These aren’t Luddites or anti-tech militias, they’re millennials. And they just want to listen. They’re called Urban Confessional: A Free Listening Project, and you’ll know them when you see them. They carry simple, handmade signs that promise “Free Listening”. “We listen for others ……
‘State Prison Inmate’ doesn’t really jump off a resume and yell, ‘Hire Me!’. But we all gotta start somewhere and Jordan Wood started here. When he got out he was 24 and trying to figure out how to turn his life around. With a little help and a lot of hustle, he ended up at one of the biggest tech…
Phillis Frye is a highly respected judge, and also the first transgendered judge in Texas. She’s been the first person to do a lot of things – like spearhead the repeal of Houston’s anti-crossdressing law in 1980 and insist on using the women’s bathroom at her university (now a hauntingly familiar conversation). After publicly assuming her chosen gender in 1976 at…
Maggie Rogers’ single ‘Alaska’ is causing chatter – it’s fresh and edgy, different from what she grew up playing. Maggie, soft-spoken and humble, totally deserves the praise. Inspired by her outdoorsy Maryland childhood paired with a new love for dance music after a trip to France, the piece is its own beast. When artist and producer Pharrell heard…
Describing Elie Wiesel as a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor is like describing Jackie Robinson as a guy who played baseball. It doesn’t cut it. Elie changed people. He found hope in places where we thought hope couldn’t, and maybe shouldn’t, exist. He will forever be a reminder that no matter how dark times get there is light. He’s a…
Every 4 years countries around the world send their best athletes to represent them in the Olympic games. But what happens when a world-class athlete has no country? Introducing the Olympics’ first all-refugee team. At year’s Summer Olympics in Brazil, a team of 10 refugees will be carrying the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony. It’s the first refugee squad…
Jasmine Twitty is 25 years-old and sharp as a tack. And guess what? True commitment – like the working-seven-days-a-week kind – and a whole lot of brains have earned her the spot one of the youngest judges in South Carolina. It wasn’t the easiest thing she’s ever done, and she had to work around many discouraging words along the way,…
You should take the subway just for the small chance you may catch this charismatic trio swinging from the bars of a car. These kids take the art of street performance to a whole new gravity-denying level. They’re good, stunningly good, and their dedication to their craft is as apparent in their smiles as it is in their choreography. “When…
This weekend cast a dark shadow on our country. After the shooting in Orlando, Florida, we mourn those lost and wonder what is to be done. People from all backgrounds are coming forward to help pick up the pieces. Mahmoud ElAwadi – Muslim-American and father of two – did is one of thousands who braved the hot Florida heat yesterday to…
Mikaila Ulmer, the 11-year-old behind Me & The Bees Lemonade, took the whole ‘kids selling lemonade thing’ and blew it wide open. After turning heads on ABC’s Shark Tank, Whole Foods signed on to carry Me & The Bees across the country. Hit up one of their stores to taste Mikaila’s great grand-mother Helen’s flaxseed lemonade recipe, sweetened with local honey. Watch…
