The world currently has about 2,043 billionaires and 89% of them are men, indicates data released by Forbes in their 2017 World’s Billionaires List. So while the wage gap for average workers marches slowly towards parity, becoming one of the the richest of the rich appears to be the final boy’s-club frontier. Forbes’ list, which calculated…
On June 17, 2015, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof entered the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. He opened fire, shooting and killing nine people, all of whom were African American. In response, Confederate flags, long a symbol of the values of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, were removed from state…
