Hollywood’s habitual practice of whitewashing, or the casting of white actors to play historically non-white characters, continues to be a controversial issue in the film industry. Whitewashing, as well as the omission of LGBT and disabled characters, exemplifies Hollywood’s lack of minority representation.
Read moreDenouncing Betsy DeVos
DeVos’s lack of experience in public education makes her an inadequate candidate for Secretary of Education and a detriment to the future of American education. The long lasting struggle to reform the US public education system gains little from the appointment of DeVos. What was an opportunity to improve public education accountability and standards is now wasted on DeVos who has neither ambitions nor the capability to advance public education.
Read moreColin Kaepernick's protests are a show of patriotism
They say you should stand up for your rights, but sometimes you have to sit down.
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