Twenty students at the University of Virginia are starving for justice. Their demands: Pay UVA workers more–at least $13 per hour–and ensure safe working conditions.
Author: Eva McKend
Eva McKend is a graduate student at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University where she is pursuing her degree in Broadcast and Digital Journalism. A multimedia storyteller, she enjoys using her skills of writing, videography and film editing to tell stories that would otherwise go untold. In 2011, she graduated from Swarthmore College, where she founded A Campaign for Me to address black female representation in the media. Eva is a former Ms. intern.
Heinous Billboard Reminds Us of Missing Voices
Last weekend, my friend told me that her 15-year-old student is pregnant. My friend works at a low-performing Philadelphia high school in a poverty-ridden, predominantly African American and Latino community. […]
Injecting F-Words Into Music with Kate Nash
A proud feminist who views her music as an art form that can change young people’s lives, British singer/songwriter Kate Nash prides herself on redefining sexy. “Real sexiness is about […]
I Could Kiss Kate Nash
According to an article in last month’s Guardian UK, Nash, a proud feminist, wanted My Best Friend Is You to deal directly with female empowerment. One of her extreme irritations is the way young girls in contemporary society are expected to be exceedingly sexy, a standard that she believes has intensified since she was a girl.
They May Ballyhoo, We’ll Stay Focused on Black Women
The fact that abortion rates are disproportionately higher in communities of color is neither the fault of Black women nor of a conspiring group of women’s health-care providers. It is because of racist and classist public-health policy that has long rendered Black women invisible.