Though most students face hardships during their academic journey, Marie Delcy’s story of overcoming is remarkable. Marie Delcy was born in Haiti. Her parents planned for Delcy to complete her primary education in Haiti and move to the US to finish college and graduate school, but those plans changed in 2010. On January 12, Read More…
They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them? Annual production of plastic exceeds eight hundred billion pounds; much of it ends up as microplastics, spreading across the ocean.Illustration by Daniel Liévano Listen to this story Read More…
For one writer, the death of a long-distance friend results in very real grief — but also leads to deep reflection on how we define and nurture our friendships in the 21st century. By Lynn GilmourPublished: “We are futuristic pen pals.” I’m looking at the text Gav sent me two months after we met in Read More…
Jewelers sent out an alarm earlier this month that people are not buying engagement rings. Sales at Signet, the U.S. jewelry giant that owns Zales, Kay, Jared, and Diamonds Direct, were down almost 10% compared to this time last year. De Beers, the biggest diamond seller in the world, says sales of rough diamonds, the Read More…
My guess is, because they don’t want to end up like Joe Crystal. Crystal was a good cop, a detective with the Baltimore PD. He’d wanted to be a cop all his life, like his father. In 2011, Crystal witnessed two fellow cops, Mariano Gialamas and Anthony Williams, beating a drug suspect, Antoine Green, with Read More…
Nationwide — Shonae Jones, a successful dropshipper and the young CEO of The Fempreneur Agency, is empowering a new generation of women entrepreneurs with her inspiring story of how she turned a $100 investment into 200K in less than a year Like many individuals, 34-year-old Shonae felt trapped in a job that she didn’t like Read More…
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