1. This is exactly why I don’t fuck with nature. This is also why God made me a black man. More on that later.

Entertainer and environmentalist, too: Singer-songwriter SZA is putting her influence into saving our oceans with a new sustainability-focused clothing line called Ctrl Fishing Company—named, of course, for her breakthrough album Ctrl. 

New data shows that less than 11 percent of Flint, Mich., children are proficient in reading. According to the Michigan Department of Education, reading rates have significantly dropped since the start of the Flint water crisis in 2014, from 41.6 percent to 10.7 percent.

The battle to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota garnered major headlines last year as protesters gathered to stop the oil pipeline from endangering the water source of sacred tribal land. But in Florida, Georgia and Alabama, there is something happening that’s…