Hunger, poverty and suffering can be so overwhelming you might feel you can’t contribute. We know we can’t solve the world’s problems in one day, but you can do something wherever you are. Jarrod Shuman did. She was outraged about the rally neo-Nazis and the KKK held in Charlottesville and decided to paint various…

Unless you’ve been living beneath the proverbial rock, you’ve likely heard the latest buzz about Game of Thrones, the popular HBO fantasy series inspired by George R. R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. Martin wrote the books with a deliberately “grey” moral outlook—many of the characters perform despicable acts alongside their noble…

After 24 years, Shaurn Thomas is finally free. Thomas claimed for over 16 years that he did not kill a popular Philadelphia businessman in a street robbery. He was 16 then, and said he had been at a juvenile court proceeding for trying to steal a motorcycle when the daylight murder occurred. But the courts…

Kathrine Switzer helped change the future of women’s sports by becoming the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. It wasn’t easy—an iconic photograph of the 1967 race shows a man attacking and grabbing at Switzer mid-run, in an attempt to get her off the track, as her coach and then-boyfriend defended her. Her…

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