For three weeks now, the world’s largest tropical forest, the Amazon has been burning, with French President Emmanuel Macron calling it an “international crisis” at the G7 meeting over the weekend, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejecting the €20 million promised by the G7 countries to help stop the fires. The Amazon is known as […]
Everyone loves a happy ending and for these rescues, they got just that! These dogs and cats, who were previously housed at the Animal Wellness Foundation, now have a place to call home — and love galore, making their new life just purr-fect. Pearla Pearla is a South LA rescue. Pearla […]
Chula Recique has written a first-hand astonishingly honest account of her latest battle with cancer. We hope her story will give others the strength to keep fighting.
New Yorkers are known for their resilience and for rallying around each other, which was best witnessed during the September 11 attacks. when they looked to each other to mend their broken hearts in the face of an inhumane and horrific terrorist attack on their beloved city. Fast-forward to today and the newly-rebuilt World Trade […]
Many have seen the images — the horrifying, squalid-like conditions that currently are the reality for migrants held in Detention Centers in America. The details of their day-to-day life are nothing short of appalling: Children sleeping on the floor in filthy, overcrowded conditions, scared, hungry and sick. On June 27, the NPR published this account […]
In statistics released earlier this year, the homeless population in Los Angeles County surged by 12 percent. In a city already in the midst of a homeless epidemic, the numbers are alarming, with 59,000 people living on the streets, and the new figures representing a 50 percent increase since 2011. The data was presented by […]
Often regarded as a manufactured, money-spinning pop group BTS, aka Bangtan boys, are smashing records including The Beatles Billboard chart record for the highest number of number ones in one year. But is there more to their success than just catchy tunes and slick dance moves? The band was formed in Seoul, South Korea in […]
Symond Boschetto is not your average 6th grader. Whilst the 11-year-old enjoys things typical of a boy his age like “sports and of course, playing video games”, he also happens to be out there making a real difference for the less fortunate. When he was just 8, he founded Share Hope USA, a non-profit organization […]
On January 24, 2017, we first brought you the heartwrenching story of Lisa Spencer, a US Navy Veteran who was stationed in New Orleans, Louisiana, for boot camp and after, for seaman apprenticeship classes, when just three weeks in, she was sexually abused in 1998. Rape is becoming increasingly prevalent among women who serve — […]
In 2001, Kate Walsh’s eldest son was diagnosed at age two-and-a-half with PDD-NOS, an Autism Spectrum Disorder. “Our journey with autism began when I took our daughter to the pediatrician for her six-month check-up,” Walsh told Westchester Magazine. “I had just dropped off James, two-and-a-half, at daycare and noticed that his classmates were speaking in sentences. […]
On Saturday, March 9, 2019, around 600 people descended upon Union Station in L.A. for Gather Everyone In 2019. Their mission was clear: To help to bring an end to homelessness in Los Angeles. Approximately 50,000 people are experiencing homelessness in and around L.A., according to the latest count by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. […]
Last Sunday (March 3, 2019), women, men, and, children in Los Angeles slipped on their running shoes for a good cause — the annual Women Run LA (WRLA), which seeks to empower women in the community. Over 300 people descended upon Hansen Dam (Lakeview Terrace Recreational Center) for the historic event, which benefited Safe Passage […]
In 2007, Siobhan Neilland founded OneMama, a non-profit that brings prosperity and health to people all over the world by empowering women as caregivers, mothers, businesswomen, and agents of change for their rural communities. Siobhan employed her mission of empowering women, families, and communities to be successful through sustainable health, education, and economics in Uganda, […]
In her heyday, supermodel Nastasia Urbano was reportedly banking a million dollars a year for just 20 days of work, and she was rubbing shoulders with the uber echelon of celebrities during the ’80s, from Andy Warhol and Jack Nicholson (she almost went to Maddona’s nuptials to Sean Penn but her boyfriend at the time was […]
In 1966 in a New York City studio, James Brown recorded the song “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World”, with one of the lyrics noting that it would be “nothing without a woman or a girl”. How right he turned out to be, and the past few years, we have witnessed women becoming more of a […]