The Fight for $15 movement, which first launched as a fast food worker strike in New York City, is now an international call to arms. And according to the organization’s website their coalition is now 300 cities strong.

Just how important is this push for $15 as our standard living wage? Check out this video. 

Why is the U.S. women’s national soccer team threatening to boycott the Olympics? Take one guess. 

Chariot For Women Is a Ride Share Service About Preventing Sexual Assault

Street artist Lydia Emily suffers from progressive multiple sclerosis, an extremely painful degenerative disease that makes it extremely difficult to paint. She does it anyway. 

Andrew W.K. wants to unite the nation under one party…. the Party Party. 

Amber Rose’s MuvaMojis have something for everybody. But stop comparing them to Kim Kardashian’s product. 

“Will MuvaMoji out-perform Kimoji, and therefore, will Rose achieve some kind of Pyrrhic victory over Kardashian? But here’s what we need to remember: Amber Rose isn’t an answer to Kim Kardashian. She’s an alternative. Maybe this afternoon you’re in the mood to send a peach with a bite taken out (MuvaMoji) and tonight you’re more of a peach covered in cream (Kimoji). In the Venn diagram of fandoms, the two women have more than a little overlap.

Besides, setting the two apps against each other as opposing forces invites the exact kind of contrived cat fighting that’s so tasty in the trash media circuit, but that measures the value of women by how many resources they can steal from their female peers. Kardashian v. Rose is Jennifer Aniston v. Angelina Jolie is Katy Perry v. Taylor Swift and so on and so on.”

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The Surprising Reason Why Women Quit Their Jobs

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Animal protection authorities often confiscate the pets of homeless people or grill homeless people for proof of animal ownership they may not have. But a new study reveals that homeless people with pets are drastically less likely to get depressed or engage in risky behaviors than those without animal friends. Here’s why homeless people need their pets. 

The Gender Decoder will tell you if a job description is sexist. 

These Portland business owners are facing accusations that their restaurant, Saffron Colonial, glorifies colonialism. What happened next will not surprise you. 

Who is the black flâneur? He or she is a loiterer. The roving that permits white fancy, white whim, white walking in our modern American cities, when observed in us and our children, reads criminal. Some black wandering the public has grieved: Michael Brown in the middle of the street, Sandra Bland on a road trip, Tamir Rice in the park, Akai Gurley up the stairs. In America’s cities, black bodies stand under many lights, and the effect is not liberating warmth, but that paranoia of surveillance. There are streets you know not to walk down for the particular threats that are built in. It’s maddening—incorporating so many fields of vision, planning so many sophisticated routes. We thought the internet as a new metropolis might not cramp one’s range of motion the way cities do, but we find the same walls erected virtually. The desire to write for black freedom more often turns into a mandate to write for white anxiety. Knowing they’re watching can foster self-policing.

Doreen St. Félix, a GOOD 100 honoree, writes on longing for a black future and writing for white anxiety

Wanna play “Communist Monopoly”? The game was banned in Russia for its “anti-Soviet” tendencies. 

Meet Ekene Ijeoma, the designer humanizing data for a more compassionate society

As an artist and designer, Ijeoma is a unicorn—a sought-after rarity, utilizing a multitude of mediums, like interactive media and installations, and tools, like code and data, with ease. He is careful to note though that these decisions are always made depending on what best serves the concept. And while Ijeoma has worked on commercial projects, his talents and passions converge in his socially conscious work. One piece, The Refugee Project, is a collaboration with design studioHyperakt that aims to increase awareness of the ongoing refugee crisis. He shows me a now-famous photo of a Turkish police officer carrying a drowned Syrian refugee boy from the beach—a heart-wrenching image that drew international ire. “I was thinking about how much empathy this image created for the issue. How could data visualization do the same thing?”

As a GOOD 100 honoree, he’s one of 100 people featured in our latest issue who are tackling global issues in innovative ways.

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Meet the Ovarian Psycos, an all-women bike crew running gentrifiers out of their LA neighborhood. 

The NRA rewrote classic fairy tales so that the protagonists had guns. Critics on Twitter responded with their own #NRAFairyTales, which depicted the bleak reality of gun violence instead.