How are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds helping immigrant children? As of September 4th, 2019, they donated $1 million to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. This organization fights for the rights of immigrant children who have migrated to…
Kevin Barber started Wheels of Change in San Diego. He was in high school at the time. Now, in 2019, the program is expanding. A van takes homeless people around the city to pick up trash. They are paid an…
Two sisters from Delaware are making bedtime a good time. Zaria and Hailey Willard take turns reading from library books. Live on Facebook. Not all children have someone to read to them every night. So the sisters have stepped up…
A 90% save rate is required in order to achieve “no-kill” animal shelter status. Delaware is the first and only state to do this, as of August 2019. How do they do it? Through adoption events, low-cost veterinary clinics, and…
Diahann Carroll passed away on October 4, 2019, after a battle with cancer. The 84-year-old is best known as the star of the TV show Julia. The show was the first time an African American woman played a role other…
Sandra Pascoe Ortiz has developed a plastic out of cactus juice. Ortiz is a chemical engineering professor at the University of theValley of Atemajac in Zapopan, Mexico. She discovered that the sugars and gums found in the prickly pear cactus…
Bots are electronic codes that automatically create messages on social media. Many bots send negative messages to politicians. A Canadian woman created a bot that sends positive messages instead. Lana Cuthbertson wanted to inspire more women to enter politics. Her…
After only one season, All American became the third most watched show on Netflix. More importantly, says female show creator Nkechi Okoro Carroll, are the conversations the show has started around what it’s like to be a young black man…
Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech to the United Nations on September 23, 2019, blamed world leaders for their inaction on climate change. Two weeks later, the 16-year-old continued her campaign in North and South Dakota. She joined activists on the Pine…
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir performed the first all-female spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on October 18th.The two were sent to replace a failed battery controller. The task took seven hours and 17 minutes. Thousands of people watched…