U.S. garment workers striking for better working conditions was the spark for International Women’s Day.
Being denied a bathroom break at the company owned by one of the richest men in the world was the last straw for Natalie Monarrez. She signed a union card that day.
Ten-year-olds massacred in their classrooms. Elders and community members gunned down at a supermarket with “Friendly” in its name. Two recent additions to a list so long, it makes us gasp. Mass shootings, many of them hate crimes, have become a horrifying […]
Larry Miller is a fairly common name. In the past, the other Larry Millers were people who had been arrested multiple times or skipped out on their bills. A simple display of identification helped my husband clear up the mistake. The publication […]
need to know that Sophie, the character based on his mother, thought that Nick, the character based on his father, had a “very nice ass.”
It happened at every book talk. Someone would come up to me – sometimes a person I knew from long ago, often a stranger – to say, “This happened to me or to someone I love.” Readers who heard about the tour […]
What do Lady Gaga, President Obama and the head of Harvard University have in common? They’re all speaking out to stop sexual assault – and not a moment too soon. The headlines call attention to the problem on college campuses: “Survey: More […]
When my sons went to college, they worried about all sorts of things — would they make friends, would they meet girls, would they be homesick, would they like their classes and would they do okay in them. They wondered about dorm […]