Tag: Empowerment

A 97-Year-Old WWII Vet Took a Knee to Show His Support to NFL Players

"Those kids have every right to protest" is all that John Middlemas needed to say to explain why he took a knee this past Sunday. Brennan Gilmore took a photo of his grandfather, a 97-year-old Missouri farmer who served in World War II, bending down on one knee as a sign of solidarity with NFL players doing the same during the national anthem at games. The...

How One Anonymous Twitter Account is Cutting Off Breitbart’s Funding

In November 2016, shortly after Trump's victory in the Presidential election, a Twitter account called 'Sleeping Giants' (@slpng_giants) was created. Exactly a week after the election, it sent out its first tweet, alerting a company called Social Finance that they were advertising with the right-wing news site Breitbart. About half an hour later, Social Finance tweeted back, agreeing to halt the advertising. Fast-forward a month,...
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