January 18, 2016

The Morning News http://ift.tt/1Wn70Tz

“Republicans tweet out flowery statements on MLK Day and even insist that King was one of them.”

A cross-country trip to photograph the streets named after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A little more than a third of US employees receive MLK Day as a paid holiday.

Nearly 70% of 1099 workers who rely on on-demand work for most of their salary are people of color.

Temp agencies are sometimes blatantly racist and discriminatory in hiring—often at the request of their clients.

Of women who work in the tech industry, 60% have experienced sexual harassment.

Inside the efforts of female comedians to purge sexual harassers from the scene.

Here’s a community who shares my sense of humor. An oral history of A Special Thing.

The gap between the number of white versus black and Latino college graduates has widened over the past eight years.

Database of Title IX sexual assault complaints against colleges.

Is Airbnb complicit in land theft against Palestinians? (Possibly.)

School crime is down, yet more than 100K mostly black and Latino NYC students are subjected to airport-style security daily.

The feminist sisterhood of female Playboy employees.

A daughter interviews her mother, who worked at Playboy in the early 1960s.

The hidden effects of gun violence as highlighted by the GoFundMe campaigns of victims.

Wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the US in 2015, breaking 2006’s record by a million acres.

Urban gentrification and poor suburban public transit infrastructure make for a cycle of poverty in the deep South.

The number of Muslim reporters in American newsrooms is slowly but surely rising.

Watching Michael Bay’s Benghazi movie with 30,000 fellow patriots in Texas.