Coincidentally, President Obama announces new oil drilling initiatives offshore in the US on the birthday of one of the world’s most public environmentalists, Al Gore.

March 31, 2010 by Annie | Tags: Al Gore, b-listed, Barack Obama, breakthrough, culture shockers, environment, oil drilling | Comments Off

March 31st is the birthday of civil rights activist and labor organizer, César Chávez, and also a national holiday in the works.

March 31, 2010 by Annie | Tags: b-days, b-listed, breakthrough, César Chávez, Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers | Comments Off

Japanese hentai game, RapeLay, was successfully taken off the shelves, but it’s still available online for anyone to download—sometimes for free. The game stays true to its title, giving the player the ability to simulate rape. It begins with you looking at a 16-year-old girl in a train. You then have the option to molest [...]

March 31, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, culture shockers, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, Equality Now, hentai, Lara Croft, Metroid, Metroid Prime, RapeLay, Samus Aran, Taina Bien-Aime, video games, violence against women | Comments Off

Governments and organizations congregate today at the United Nations in New York to develop a reconstruction plan for Haiti after the devastating earthquake in January 2010.

March 31, 2010 by Annie | Tags: b-activists, b-listed, breakthrough, Haiti Donors Conference, Haiti earthquake, International Donors' Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti, United Nations | Comments Off

Orginally posted on Causecast.org by SARAH NELSON, Contributing Writer 1. An estimated 26 percent of the global population, one billion adults around the world, are unable to read or write. 2. Two-thirds of illiterate adults are women. The gender education gap is improving, but girls are often given an inferior education to their male classmates [...]

March 30, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, Causecast.org, development goals, education, guide to, illerate adults, literacy, Millenium Development Goal, poverty, United Nations | Comments Off

Ratified by New York: March 30, 1870 Added to the Constitution: Feb 3, 1870 The 15th Amendment was apart of the Reconstruction Amendments, and it gave African-Americans the right to vote throughout the country, by banning voter discrimination based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” Did you know? After the amendment was ratified, [...]

March 30, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: African American, b-days, b-listed, breakthrough, Civil Rights, Constitution, reconstruction, Rights, Slavery, The 15th Amendment, Vote | Comments Off

What’s the first thing you think about when you see a guy with tattoos from head to toe, piercings in places you didn’t know could be pierced, and a colorful Mohawk with a matching goatee? Well more than likely its not love, compassion, tolerance or pacifism. But that’s exactly what The Scary Guy is about. [...]

March 30, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-activists, breakthrough, discrimination, j, motivational speaker, prejudice, The Scary Guy | 1 Comment »

The Sarah Palin phenomenon is far from over. The Learning Channel (TLC) just announced they will show her eight-episode travelogue, Alaska, paying the former Governor $250,000 an episode, $2 million in total. The reality-show is not supposed to be politically charged, but rather gives audiences the chance to learn about the beautiful Alaska from one [...]

March 29, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-listed, breakthrough, culture shockers, Emmanual Cleaver, health care reform, homepage, John Lewis, Louise Slaughter, reality TV, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, TLC | Comments Off

Social media is perhaps the fastest growing technology being wholeheartedly supported by young people. Educators from around the country are confused by this new wave of distraction in the classrooms since Facebook and twitter has invaded cell phones. While many schools ban the mediums and often block the sites on their servers, others are saying, [...]

March 29, 2010 by Stefani | Tags: b-activists, breakthrough, change.org, Classroom 2.0, education, Facebook, Minnetonka school district, National School Boards Association, Planet Turtle, social media, Twitter, Web 2.0 | Comments Off

TV shows, newspapers, movies and online journals are all speaking out about the crisis in Congo to raise awareness and call on the world for action.

March 26, 2010 by Annie | Tags: b-listed, Ben Affleck, breakthrough, Congo, culture shockers, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Congo Initiative, Gimme Shelter, Half the Sky, HBO, homepage, human rights, Law & Order, Mariska Hargitay, Nicholas Kristof, rape, Reporter, Special Victims Unit, SVU, The Huffington Post, UNHCR, United Nations High Commission on Refugees, violence against women, women's rights | Comments Off