It’s not easy to be a young person in America. Today’s society always reiterates that authority comes with age, routinely allowing adults to dismiss young people and invalidate their experiences. It’s just too easy to label young people as incompetent. Those in...
These six, succinct eight-second shorts brought to you by MGM are like a hypothesis. A question is posed to the viewer: can you fall in love in eight seconds? The follow up question is this: will you? I’ve fallen in love before. Eight seconds was all it took: the last...
Viral hits and overnight sensations with limited longevity that lack true artistry have recently flooded the music industry leaving a desire for sustainable artists with undeniable talent to revive the industry. Enter Los Angeles-based female pop duo Joyeur. Though...
The Internet (and Netflix's Twitter account) is abuzz over the latest breakout heartthrob, Noah Centineo who played Peter Kavinsky in the well loved "To All The Boys I've Loved Before." The future looks bright: not only was a "To All The Boys" sequel green lit, but...
On the surface, Lana Condor is like any 21-year-old. She’s learning how Twitter works (does anyone know how it really works?), obsessing over coffee and noodles, and trying to figure out the whole adult thing with the unknown prospect of what tomorrow brings. She's...
The day is gray and foggy deep in the forest-covered hills surrounding the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Sichuan, China. The bamboo in these picturesque forests grows abundantly in a lush shade of green. Look deep below the misty...
Peering below the tall buildings spaced one after another, you can finally see the people, packed to a density it feels like no square foot is unfilled. Look even more closely, and you can see a great variety of cultures and ethnicities in the crowd; within each...
As the morning sun peeked out over the horizon, the Buddhist monks in the monasteries of Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, were already chanting traditional mantras in their deep, solemn voices. These morning voices were reflections of the deeply ingrained role...
In psychology, we are taught that a single story can change or inspire us in ways a million statistics cannot. Therein lies the heart of journalism’s power: a single story can force accountability at the highest levels of government or the private sector, compel us to...
Aya: a name that, in Arabic, means “miracle.” For 23-year-old Aya Abdullah, her name is a parallel for her life story. Going through unimaginable traumas as a young child and only later getting the chance to live her dreams, Abdullah has endured more in her life than...
