Haunting, And Incredibly Powerful Anti-Bullying Poem: Shane Koyczan, ‘To This Day’ Live Meet Shane Koyczan. He’s the one who wrote the poem “To This Day” that was crowdsource-animated and then went super viral in 2013, reaching 10 million page views in a matter of weeks. Here, he provides a little more background and then does […]
Imagine growing up in an evangelical Christian household, and imagine how it might feel to realize you’re gay. For many teenagers, that realization is terrifying. They fear they will be rejected by their families and communities. The sad truth is that many homosexuals are rejected by their families because of their sexual orientation. Matthew Vines […]
A Seattle entrepreneur announced on Monday that he was raising the minimum salary at his company to $70,000 and reducing his own pay to the same amount from the current level of about $1 million. Dan Price, the founder of Gravity Payments, told the CBS Evening News that he was inspired by a Princeton University […]
9-year-old Sydney Smoot, a fourth grader at Brooksville Elementary, shared her concerns on testing in schools with members of the Hernando County School Board at their regular meeting on March 17, 2015. Speaking of the Florida Standards Assessment Test, or FSA for short, Sydney told the school board that: This testing looks at me as […]
All too often, doctors are unsung heroes – only seen in times if ill health, often serving as reminders of death and disease. A heart-breaking photo taken by an EMT, showing the instant an Emergency Room doctor stepped outside after losing a 19-year-old patient is exploding on the internet after a fellow EMT posted the […]