Category: Politics
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The Evolved Men of the Week: The Golden Thirteen

Welcome to the “Veterans Day” edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Men of the Week’ profile. Today, we will highlight historical and contemporary figures who embodied what it meant to be an evolved man, both famous and non-famous. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to the Golden…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

America’s unintentional indifference to veterans I need you to understand that war is a democratic process. The military does not choose it. The people you choose to elect do. Respectfully, for that reason, you shouldn’t be allowed to gaze from afar, put us out of mind, cut off yourself to us. Whatever we have done, it was…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike All Israeli embassies and consulates around the world shut down early Wednesday as diplomats and military attachés went on strike in a long-simmering dispute with the Finance Ministry over expense stipends paid to envoys. #Israel #Embassy #Strike #Diplomats Students defy prime minister to join Iraq protests…
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Leave My Curl Alone

Black Hair Matters Afros, braids, Bantu knots, cornrows, locks, and twists are a few of the many ways black people have worn their hair for millennia. But in the United States and across the globe, black people’s hair has always been a point of contention. It’s been policed since the days of slavery. Yet, there…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Hanoi orders probe as majority of Essex truck death victims likely from Vietnam Nghe An is one of Vietnam’s poorest provinces, and home to many victims of human trafficking, who end up in Europe, according to a March report by the Pacific Links Foundation, a US-based anti-trafficking organization. #SoutheastAsia #Vietnam #London #HumanTrafficking Weekend At Bernie’s: Sanders Tell…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

NASA Astronauts Complete the First All-Female Spacewalk Both women, as well as Ms. McClain, were part of NASA’s 2013 class of eight astronaut trainees, which was the first to include equal numbers of men and women. There are now 12 female astronauts in NASA’s ranks, out of a total of 38 active ones. #NASA #Science #WomenInSTEM #Space Protests Rock…
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School’s Out

The Tale of Two Cities This week, Chicago’s Public School doors are closed…just like they once were several years ago when Rahm Emmanuel was the Chicago Mayor. At the end of 2019, before the dawn of a new decade, the Chicago Teachers Union and their comrades at Service Employees (SEIU) Local 73 have retaken to…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Mayor Michael Tubbs

Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Stanford University graduate and Stockton Mayor, Michael…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

Fort Worth Officer Kills Woman In Her Bedroom In Response To ‘Open Structure Call’ Authorities say that when they entered Jefferson’s home, a gun was recovered from the bedroom — the area where police shot and where Jefferson was pronounced dead. Officials did not say whether Jefferson was holding a weapon at the time the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe

More than a quarter of UK mammals face extinction “I think the most important thing that young people can do to help the environment is to educate the adults around them, put pressure on the people in charge and show other young people that even small actions can have a big impact #Humanity #climatechange #Extinction Elected…