January 18, 2016
- "Republicans tweet out flowery statements on MLK Day and even insist that King was one of them."
- A cross-country trip to photograph the streets named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A little more than a third of US employees receive MLK Day as a paid holiday.
- Nearly 70% of 1099 workers who rely on on-demand work for most of their salary are people of color.
- Temp agencies are sometimes blatantly racist and discriminatory in hiring—often at the request of their clients.
- Of women who work in the tech industry, 60% have experienced sexual harassment.
- Inside the efforts of female comedians to purge sexual harassers from the scene.
- An oral history of A Special Thing.
- The gap between the number of white versus black and Latino college graduates has widened over the past eight years.
- Database of Title IX sexual assault complaints against colleges.
- Is Airbnb complicit in land theft against Palestinians? (Possibly.)
- School crime is down, yet more than 100K mostly black and Latino NYC students are subjected to airport-style security daily.
- The feminist sisterhood of female Playboy employees.
- A daughter interviews her mother, who worked at Playboy in the early 1960s.
- The hidden effects of gun violence as highlighted by the GoFundMe campaigns of victims.
- Wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the US in 2015, breaking 2006's record by a million acres.
- Urban gentrification and poor suburban public transit infrastructure make for a cycle of poverty in the deep South.
- The number of Muslim reporters in American newsrooms is slowly but surely rising.
- Watching Michael Bay's Benghazi movie with 30,000 fellow patriots in Texas.