Lorena Ruiz

Brooklyn designers Faun Chapin and Meg Paradise are using their skills as designers to shame members of Congress standing in the way of gun policy reforms. Read More

This week’s Melissa Harris-Perry Foot Soldier is Asma Hanif, an advanced practice nurse who has devoted her life to operating Al-Nissa Holistic Health Center, a free clinic for women who are homeless, uninsured, or victims of domestic abuse, and Muslimat Al-Nisaa, a shelter for Muslim women. Read More

This week’s “Foot Soldier” is Aaron Jackson, who was inspired to send Westboro Baptist Church a visual message in support of LGBTQ equality by creating the “Equality House,” a home across the street from the Church that he purchased and painted in the colors of the rainbow pride flag. Read More

His young daughter asked if she could play "Donkey Kong" as Pauline, not the traditional hero Mario. What programmer Mike Mika did afterward made him our Foot Soldier this week. Read More

Two Long Island hairstylists open their doors to cancer patients exclusively every month, and are the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary. Read More

Host Melissa Harris-Perry's "Foot Soldier" this week is a college student whose program recovers unsold food from college dining halls to donate to neighborhood food banks and shelters. Read More

"Being Transgender in America" focused on the difficulties transgender individuals face in our communities. Read More

On Saturday, host Melissa Harris-Perry profiled Jason Benson, a convicted felon who turned his life around and opened up the SALT Emergency Overnight Centers, housing the homeless in rural Missouri. Read More

Easy-Bake Ovens are for boys just as much as girls, a 13-year-old argued to Hasbro. They listened. Read More