When Ben Mullinkosson first moved to Washington, D.C., he knew next to no one. “So I went to Freedom Plaza, which is internationally known as the skate spot.After the tragedy in New Zealand at the Christchurch mosques last month, the filmmakers feel that their film’s message is more important than e

On Friday, August 1, 2014 at the start of South African Women’s Month, hundreds of volunteers participated in the 8th annual Silent Protest. Organized for the first time by AHF, the protest aimed to highlight rape survivors’ right to Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) in order to prevent HIV sero-conve

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students were among the activists who spoke at the "March for Our Lives" rally Saturday March 24, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Speakers at the event, which drew hundreds of thousands of people, included Emma Gonzalez, David Hogg and Yolanda Renee King, the granddaugh...

Ukraine had its first Gay Pride Parade in 2013 amidst intolerance and suppression. In 2020, and due to the covid-19 pandemic, the organizers of the event decided to make a world statement regarding their Gay Pride by flying a rainbow flag with a drone and attaching it to their Moderland Monument i...

On March 30, 2009, NASA unveiled the new Orion Spacecraft in front of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. The module is still undergoing tests, but is planned to make its first journey to the International Space Station in 2015.

Ortrud, known to her friends as 'Orty', has been collecting model clowns for over 15 years, and in that time amassed 2,053 different models. The collection is so large that Ortrud has had to move to a larger flat to accommodate them, and even set up her own museum at her home in Essen, Germany. Ortr...

The Shed's concept is simple: It's the 120-foot tall building that moves. This idea is both its architectural hallmark and its metaphor for the future of culture. Opening on April 5th, New York City's half-billion dollar, hybrid museum-meets-performance space can shapeshift to double its indoor peri...

Starring Billy Eichner, the first openly gay man to co-write and star in his own major studio film—and featuring an entirely LGBTQ+ principal cast, including Luke Macfarlane (Killjoys) Bobby Lieber, an "out and proud but also scared and self-doubting. New York City museum curator, is hired to writ

Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New Y

The spacecraft crashed into an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument. NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally collided with an asteroid on Monday evening, in an attempt to alter the space rock’s trajectory. The mission tested technology that could help defend Earth against potential future aster