Marie Solis

Jason Kessler, the white supremacist organizer behind the racist August rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, began getting the word out about his “Unite the Right” event back in July via posts on his personal Facebook page. A month later — just one…

Rachel Godsil was in a cab on her way to the Denver airport when her driver, who was white, said something offensive. He’d made a few unsavory comments actually, lamenting that women weren’t “feminine” anymore and that not enough of them wore high…

President Donald Trump ran a campaign touting his aggressive goals to arrest, detain and ultimately deport many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently residing in the United States. So far, Trump has made a concerted effort to realize…

On Tuesday, North Korean officials warned that they were prepared to retaliate against the United States in response to the United Nations’ latest sanctions against the country. Members of the United Nations Security Council passed the sanctions —…

At the end of July, the Hotel Association of New York City launched an ad campaign against Airbnb, claiming its long-time foe enables terrorists to easily find housing in the county’s major cities. “Airbnb allows illegal listings on its site, and…

Sergio Hernandez was just 15 years old when he was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent. Hernandez had been on the Mexican side of the southern border when the agent, Jésus Mesa Jr., fired the deadly shot from American soil. What was unique…

On an average day, about 7.3% of the people who call the Trevor Project, a crisis intervention and suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ youth, identify themselves as transgender. But in the 24 hours following President Donald Trump’s…

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump appeared alongside Sens. Tom Cotton (R- Ark.) and David Perdue (R- Ga.) to announce a revised version of a bill that would create a “merit-based” immigration system for immigrants seeking green cards in the…

Documents obtained by the New York Times suggest the Trump administration has plans to allocate Department of Justice resources toward suing universities whose admissions officers use “intentional race-based discrimination” against white people. But…

United States officials appear to be weighing a few different tactics when it comes to de-escalating tensions with North Korea. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during a press briefing that the U.S. is willing to enter talks with…

By the end of the summer, Russia will have sent as many as 100,000 troops to Belarus, the Baltic Sea, western Russia and the Russian enclave Kaliningrad for a scheduled military exercise known as Zapad. According to the New York Times, the drill —…

One inmate still remains unaccounted for following the escape of a dozen prisoners from Alabama’s Walker County Jail on Sunday. According to CNN, the man still at large is 24-year-old Brady Andrew Kilpatrick, who is serving time for drug-related…

In April, Carla Provost — who’d been sworn in as deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol just five months earlier — became the agency’s acting chief, making her the first woman ever to hold the position. At an event Tuesday honoring the 42nd anniversary…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning banned transgender people from serving in the military, citing “the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.” While Trump spoke in the hypothetical — tweeting…

Sunday’s discovery that between 30 and 40 people had been smuggled across the border in the back of a tractor-trailer — and the subsequent reports that 10 of those people died from the sweltering heat — was a startling one. But historically…

For straight women, the opening scene of Landline might be an uncomfortable but familiar one: In it, Dana, played by Jenny Slate, is having sex with her fiance Ben, played by Jay Duplass, outside of her family’s country house when she tells him,…

News that Sean Spicer stepped down from his position as White House press secretary on Friday — and with former deputy secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to take over the post — filled the hearts of his opponents with a certain schadenfreude. Not only…

The trailer for Brown Girls opens with the show’s leads, Patricia and Leila, talking to their friend Victor candidly about sex before breaking off into a montage of the three laughing, drinking, lying in bed and finally pledging, “Single girls club…

BuzzFeed’s bombshell report on the disturbing abuse allegations against singer R. Kelly told the stories of multiple young women living in his so-called “cult,” reportedly under the singer’s complete control. It also told the stories of their…