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Environmental Impact of Fast Fashion

Convenient and affordable clothing stores like Shein, Forever 21, or Zara are successful and well liked by younger generations but they are quickly damaging the Earth. Clothing companies like those contribute...

Offensive Halloween Costumes

Halloween celebrations are beginning and many of us may attend them this upcoming weekend. Picking out the perfect costume is an enjoyable part of the holiday but wearing a costume that appropriates a culture is not okay...

National Women's Small Business Month

You may be familiar with Small Business Saturday, the Saturday after Thanksgiving when people are encouraged to purchase holiday gifts from their local small businesses, but did you know there’s...

Puppy Mill Awareness Day

The third Saturday of this month, September, is a day to celebrate and care for our favorite furry friends. September 17, 2022 is Puppy Mill Awareness Day. So many adorable puppies are bred in commercial dog breeding facilities every...

Olivia Rodrigo, Asian American

On April 20, 2022, Olivia Rodrigo will be performing a local, sold out show in Chesterfield, MO. What some people may not know about Olivia Rodrigo is that she is an Asian American. Her great grandfather immigrated to the United States from the...

Purple Day

Purple Day takes place every year on March 26th. It was started in 2008 by a young woman named Cassidy Megan who struggles with epilepsy. It is a day to create awareness for epilepsy, dispel myths about it...

Unequal Pay for Female Physicians

“In 2020, women’s annual earnings were 82.3% of men’s, and the gap is even wider for women of color,” according to the U.S. Department of Labor Blog. We have probably all heard of the problem with women...

World Day of Social Justice

Since 2009, February 20th has been observed around the globe as World Day of Social Justice. This was declared and started by the United Nations on November 26, 2007 as a step towards continuous...