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Bank of America Pledges $1 Billion to Fight Racial Inequality; Apple, Facebook, Verizon Give $10M Each

Bank of America is committing $1 billion over 4 years to Fight Racial Inequality, while Apple, Facebook, Verizon are pledging $10M Each.

A Legacy of Equality: Americans With Disabilities Act Turns 25

Sunday is the 25th anniversary of the ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, which made the country a lot more accessible than it was in...

Photo of the Day – It’s Women’s Equality Day

Women’s Equality Day commemorates the day in 1920 when voting rights for women officially became part of the U.S. constitution. The 19th Amendment securing women...
Brazil's Ipanema beach by Chris Battaglia-CC-Flickr-Photog63

How Brazil’s Good Governance Created High Growth, Political Freedom, and Greater Income Equality

In the first of four installments of a series on good governance, SPIEGEL explores how Brazil has become one of globalization's success stories. A...

Good News in History, October 16

101 years ago today, the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was founded by Roy and Walt Disney. Its name was soon changed to The Walt...

Good News in History, October 12

On this day in 1945, Desmond Doss became the only conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor after saving an estimated 75 men...

Good News in History, October 7

On this day, 139 years ago, the Danish physicist Niels Bohr was born. In his long and distinguished career, he made foundational contributions to...

Good News in History September 21

43 years ago today, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female Supreme Court Justice. She was approved in the Senate 99-0,...

Good News in History September 17

Happy 80th Birthday to the greatest mountaineer of all time, Reinhold Messner. An Italian climber, explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South...

Good News in History, September 6

29 years ago today, Cal Ripken Jr. broke Lou Gehrig’s baseball record when he played in his 2,131st consecutive game. Once considered a near-impossible...

Good News in History, August 28

116 years ago today, Roger Tory Peterson, the inventor of the modern field guide, was born. The American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator published...

Bullied Man With Facial Disease Quits Job to Speak to Schools And Help Kids With Differences

A man living with a facial disease has quit his job to focus on helping children who are bullied for being different. Amit Ghose was...

Good News in History, April 28

6 years ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India had achieved its goal, ahead of schedule, of providing electricity to every village...

Good News in History, April 23

110 years ago today, the first-ever baseball game was played at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Then known as Weeghman Park, its original occupants were...

Good News in History, April 18

80 years ago today, the inaugural hearing of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) also called the World Court, was held at the Peace...

Good News in History, April 8

90 years ago today, the architect Kisho Kurokawa was born. This brilliant mind was the co-founder of the Metabolist architectural movement, which sought to...

Good News in History, April 6

59 years ago today, the first commercial communications satellite, Intelsat I, was placed in geosynchronous orbit. The tiny 2-foott device (nicknamed Early Bird for...

Good News in History, March 4

1,172 years ago today, a Duke named Trpimir I wrote in a charter in the Latin language that he was Duke of the Croats...

Good News in History, February 24

188 years ago today, one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America, Winslow Homer, was born. Born in Boston to a father always seeking...

Good News in History, February 15

33 years ago today, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary created the Visegrád Group, a cooperation agreement to reorient their nations away from communism and toward...