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Starting March 31, the nonprofit Hope for Haiti is hosting its 5th annual Hike for Haiti challenge to encourage people around the world to hike in solidarity with Haitian people.
The New York Times
Earlier this year, millions of Americans got a notice: Your food budget is about to be cut, potentially by hundreds of dollars a month. Here are some tips on how you can manage. You can’t appeal.
ABC News
Black Ambition was founded by Pharrell Williams in 2020 to empower Black and Latinx entrepreneurs to excel without interruption.
The Guardian
Robert Suttle was 30 when he was arrested and imprisoned for the felony of “intentional exposure to the Aids virus”.
We Are For Good
“Look into your own network and see who are the heroes that you’re working with every day and figure out ways to make them celebrities.” — Sarah Adolphson, Co-CEO, The Artemis Agency
Medium
“I am excited to share #MyArtStory in partnership with @MyNumberStory to help raise awareness of the impacts of childhood adversity and trauma long-term — be it physical or mental — and how art can be a way to heal.”
NPR Music
This year, NPR Music is celebrating Black Music Month with an array of brand new Tiny Desk concerts — both from home and from behind our beloved Desk.
NBC15 News
Pharrell’s “Something in the Water” music festival made its debut in Washington, D.C., over the weekend, bringing in 70 of music’s biggest artists including Tyler, the Creator, Lil Baby, 21 Savage, 6lack, J Balvin, Pusha T, Snoh Aalegra, Lil Uzi Vert and more.
GLAAD
Last Saturday the Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer performed at the Something in the Water Music Festival in Washington DC over Juneteenth weekend.
FOX LA
Host of 'George Goes Everywhere', George Igoe, shares how he explored cities across the nation on a budget.
Medium
No one really tells you just how amazing the creative process can be. How you can turn an idea or a concept into a piece of art, or in my case into a film or a video still amazes me.
Billboard
It’s been six months since Lil Nas X officially “gave birth” to his debut album Montero. Now, he’s showing the progress that’s been made since thanks to his fundraising efforts.
GMA
Lil Nas X had a unique way to raise money for charity: a fake "baby registry. If you forgot, the Grammy winner pretended to be pregnant and "gave birth" to his debut studio album, "Montero," about six months ago.
The View
Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation launches the first 'HIV Is Not A Crime Awareness Day' to recognize that more than 30 states still have outdated discriminatory laws that criminalize people living with HIV.
Advocate.com
People living with HIV and their allies are making clear that HIV criminalization laws no longer make sense — and that they do harm.
NJ.com
Michael B. Jordan’s mom says it’s time to end the HIV epidemic in New Jersey
People.com
Paris Jackson Remembers Her Godmother Elizabeth Taylor's 'Commitment to the Cause' on World AIDS Day
ajc.com
Atlanta City Council honors Lil Nas X with his own day at homecoming event
youtube.com
Beast Philanthropy and World Central Kitchen help hurricane survivors in New Orleans
teenvogue.com
Lil Nas X’s prison-themed music video for “Industry Baby” made headlines for its boundary-breaking visuals and its charitable function, the video serving as a YouTube fundraiser for non-profit organization The Bail Project. The rapper continues to make statements with his smash hit — making last night’s performance of “Industry Baby” a tribute to the HIV community.
buzzfeed.com
Lil Nas X's performance, on top of being an incredible musical showcase, also paid tribute to people living with HIV. The rapper performed his hit songs "Montero" and "Industry Baby" and was joined by Mardrequs Harris, who is the Southern AIDS Coalition’s director of community investments.
hollywoodreporter.com
Lil Nas X’s performance of his singles “Industry Baby” and “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” raised awareness about HIV. The rapper had Southern AIDS Coalition’s director of community investments Mardrequs Harris perform with him on stage. Harris’ outfit featured the number 433,816 in red which represents the universal color or recognition and support for HIV as well as the number of people living with HIV in the south as of 2015, according to GLAAD.
billboard.com
Back in July, Lil Nas X joked on Twitter that he and Jack Harlow would perform "Industry Baby" at the VMAS "baby butt naked" for "charity." He wasn't totally lying.
Turns out, the performance had a special element of activism. GLAAD tweeted out words of praise for the star after Mardrequs Harris of the Southern AIDS Coalition, who was onstage with Lil Nas X at the VMAs, sported a jacket with the number 433,816 in red. That represents "the number of people living with HIV in the U.S. South" as of 2015.
stlpublicradio.org
For the first time since enacting HIV laws in the 1980s, Missouri will update its laws that make it a crime to expose a person to the virus. Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed a bill that reduces the charges a person faces for transmitting the virus. Missouri joins a number of states that have passed such legislation this year. Legislatures around the country are moving to correct HIV laws that were based on false assumptions about how the virus is transmitted.
people.com
Today the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation's "HIV Is Not A Crime" initiative, in partnership with Gilead Sciences, focuses on the modernization of criminal laws and penalties that currently target people living with HIV. Outdated laws that were enacted decades ago because of fear and stigma toward people living with HIV have not adapted to modern science.
washingtonpost.com
Even with a pandemic raging, Nadine Burke Harris, a pediatrician who is serving as the first state surgeon general of California, set a goal that had nothing to do with the coronavirus: training 20,000 medical professionals in her state in a kind of health assessment known as the ACEs score.
scienceandentertainmentexchange.org
The topic of childhood trauma is more relevant than ever as we emerge from a pandemic that has gripped the globe. Join us for a discussion with pioneering physician and California’s first-ever Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris as she reveals the science behind Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress.
THR.com
The ONE Campaign, the Bono co-founded global health and anti-poverty organization, has debuted an animated series titled Pandemica that aims to raise awareness of the importance of vaccines in ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrick Adams, Samuel Arnold, Connie Britton, Meg Donnelly, Danai Gurira, Nick Kroll, Laura Marano, Phoebe Robinson, Michael Sheen, Wanda Sykes and Calum Worthy round out the 'Pandemica' voice cast.
Metroweekly.com
Our nation has a dark past of implementing laws that disproportionately impact individuals at the margins of society. I learned about these discriminatory laws firsthand through producing MILK, a biographical film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person elected to public office in California.
Variety.com
When you look to next year, what are the biggest challenges and opportunities for change, particularly as it relates to underrepresented groups in the music business and the glaring lack of diversity in the top ranks?
The biggest challenge is the system becoming hyper-aware of its purposeful blockages and making things more equitable for all people. We need more advocates and allies.