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Here’s What It’s Like to Be a Black Police Officer Right Now
These are turbulent times. In recent weeks, white police officers again have been captured on video killing African American men. The horrific footage of a Minneapolis police officer using his knee to...
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I Was Isolated for a Year in Antarctica—Here’s What Surprised Me Most When I...
My journey to isolation in Antarctica was somewhat accidental. I saw an advertisement in a print publication for a job as a station leader for an expedition to Davis Station, Antarctica—and I have to...
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13 Things You Didn’t Know About Shark Attacks
Shark attacks are scary, but that is as far as the regular person’s knowledge about shark attacks generally goes. Do you know that punching a shark isn’t a great defense? Or how about the fact that...
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12 True Stories That Show What Happens When You Don’t Social-Distance
Better safe than sorry Summer weather and reopening businesses have people celebrating the end of quarantine and a return to normalcy, but make no mistake: We may be done with coronavirus, but...
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How a Boy Scout Nearly Drowned to Fight Racism in His Troop
I am the last boy in the Boy Scout troop to get his uniform and the last boy to pay his $10 to go to the Big Camp Jamboree. When we arrive, we are the only black troop there. One of the first things...
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20 Everyday Acts of Racism That Don’t Get Talked About Enough
America has an unacceptable habit of addressing racism only when it’s shoved in its face, when there’s nowhere else to look. It took global protests in the middle of a pandemic for parts of this...
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Why It’s So Much Harder for Black Women to Make It in the Fashion World
Fashion and entertainment are tough industries. They are businesses based on snap judgments, conformity, and the ability to categorize people into an easily consumable package. It’s a difficult world...
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Racism in Healthcare: What It’s Like Giving Birth as a Black Woman
Reader's DigestNEVER Use These Products on Your BabyYour baby has very sensitive skin, and the wrong products could irritate your little one. As protests against systemic racism continue across the...
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This 11-Year-Old Mows Lawns to Raise Money for Social Justice
Many children and teens mow lawns in the summer to put a little spending money in their pocket. But for one 11-year-old boy from Missouri, his summer lawn mowing business has turned into something much...
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My Immigrant Family Took on White-Sounding Names—And Here’s Why That’s a Problem
As a nine-year-old, I was plucked from a sheltered life in my close-knit community of Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea, and plopped in Atlanta, Georgia. No one in my family had ever ventured outside...
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13 Oddest Ways People Have Made $1 Million
Wealth can come from anywhere While it may seem that the only way to become exceedingly wealthy is through hard work and ambition, sometimes you can just get lucky. Money is a fickle thing that comes...
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I’m a Teacher—Here’s Why I Won’t Go Back to School When It Reopens
Teaching is my life. I’m a professor of communication, and I have been teaching at a college level for 28 years. My favorite part of my job is getting to see and mentor my students, becoming a part of...
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I Broke Up with My Best Friend Because We Couldn’t Agree on Black Lives Matter
“Sweet” is one of the first words people often use to describe Nancy. Indeed, her kindness was one of the first things that drew me to her when we first met in middle school. As we grew up, she...
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21 Extraordinary Stories of Generosity That Will Stay with You
Blossoming kindness “My mother just called me. She had ordered some flowers from a small local store, to be delivered and dropped on the porch. When they brought the flowers, they said, ‘Hang on, we...
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When 20 Miners Became Stranded in an Elevator Shaft, One Man Transported Them...
Cradling his hard hat and bag of sandwiches, Mario Cockrell sprinted for the elevator and shoved his way among the miners jammed inside. Many of them grumbled at him: “Late again!” The doors slammed...
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10 People Who Literally Came Back to Life
Second chances It’s easy to shrug off those miraculous stories about people who were effectively dead and then returned to life. But sometimes, this really does happen, and it’s not a hoax but is in...
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Here’s How I Survived a Shark Attack
Let’s face it: Shark attacks are riveting. Plenty of people plan their lives around Shark Week—and even screenings of Sharknado. Thankfully, your actual odds of ever being attacked by a shark are a...
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13 Most Famous Sister Rivalries in History
Feuding sisters Families fight–that’s just what they do. Usually, when a family has a rift within it, it’s kept within the home and dealt with internally. That is, of course, only when the family isn’t...
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I’m an International Student at Dickinson College—Now I’m Anxious About My...
In early July, the Trump administration barred all international college students from living in the United States if their classes were being held online only as a response to the pandemic. That rule...
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How I Visited 20 Countries in One Year for $250 a Week
Jeremy Helligar in Kiev, Ukraine. People often ask me how I did it. After I left New York City in 2006 to move to Buenos Aires, I spent the next 13 years living abroad and traveling on multiple...
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