A few of rap's heavyweights are joining forces to help a former Mississippi high school student, who they feel is being persecuted under the law - and it's all in the name of hip-hop.
Now that same-sex marriage is legal, they want to have their adoption reversed.
The discovery of racially coded notes taken by prosecutors during jury selection is forcing the Supreme Court to take a second look at this murder trial, The Washington Post reports.
Yesterday, history was made in the United States after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the nation. After the historic news broke, Puerto Rico, a United States territory, immediately pushed for same-sex marriage reform in the country. Billboard reports: According to The Associated Press, Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed an executive order requiring government agencies in […]
The United States Supreme Court will be investigating a case concerning a botched lethal injection that took place in Oklahoma last year. The incident left an inmate dying slowly and gasping for air during his final moments. [CNN] Ernie Banks, former Chicago Cubs player and the first African American to play for the team, passed […]
The Supreme Court is finally taking a stand on same-sex marriage, and has decided to determine whether the Constitution allows for individual states to ban it. The case is set to be argued in April, and a decision should be ready by late June. [NBC News] Alex Malarkey, the 6-year-old boy who told the world […]
Among the think pieces and lists about how feminism won 2014, the thing consistently overlooked proves to also be the most infuriating. Feminism, while it has always outlined the shape of politics and culture throughout the years, isn’t new. Feminism didn’t just happen. It’s not a trend. It’s not suddenly “important” because of how mainstream it’s become in recent months. […]
Guys, we don’t know how to tell you this, but you may want to lay off the potatoes for a while after reading this post. And now that we got that out of the way, here’s the story of a 22-year-old woman who put a potato in her vagina as a means of contraceptive – […]
If you thought proponents of birth control were taking a back seat in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that allows for-profit companies to refuse coverage of contraception for religious reasons, think again. In the most creative, delightfully shady and crafty way, women who are deemed less human than corporations (and their supporters) have taken to Hobby Lobby’s […]
On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that closely held, for-profit companies can claim a religious exemption to the Obamacare requirement that they provide health insurance coverage for birth control. Hobby Lobby, the family-owned chain of arts and craft stores behind the ruling, claimed the Obamacare requirement for corporations to provide health care coverage for contraceptives interfered with […]
Hobby Lobby, the family-owned chain of arts and craft stores founded on Biblical principles, may have gained some ground in the religious freedom fight yesterday when the Supreme Court ruled corporations can refuse to provide health insurance coverage for birth control. But the newest enemy in the fight to limit women’s reproductive rights also exhibited some hypocrisy too […]
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that closely held, for-profit companies can claim a religious exemption to the Obamacare requirement that they provide health insurance coverage for birth control. The court’s limited ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, was 5-4 and does not appear to open the door to other types of religious-exemption claims by […]
