Street harassment is a threat that most women face on a regular basis, yet the problem is rarely taken seriously. Too often, we are told it's a compliment, we invited it, men can't help it, and on and ...

In case you haven’t seen the video, here it is: Founder Emily May is an Ashoka Fellow. She describes her strategy for Hollaback at the end of this video. May says it’s part street activism and part ...

"It's not about there being one right way," Hollaback! co-founder Emily May tells PEOPLE, stressing the "Five D's" to combat harassment: distract, delegate, delay, direct, document April is Sexual ...

The singer released her fourth solo studio album 'Bouquet' earlier this month Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Gwen Stefani ain't no hollaback girl. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, the "Cool" singer, Jimmy Fallon and ...

Every time a new rejection letter appeared in Emily May’s mailbox, she tried her hardest not to take it personally. She’d been convinced the cause she was rallying for–fighting street harassment–was ...

A new smartphone app fights sexual harassment on the street — allowing victims to report incidents in real time. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, unveiling the app — produced by a nonprofit ...

A story in the Daily News sparked a great deal of media attention about a lowly $20,000 item in the City Council’s pet-project slush fund. There was buzz because the Council had earmarked the money ...

Jill Dimond started working on the Hollaback! app, which allows women to log and map incidents of street harassment by submitting their stories when they occur, while doing her Ph.D. work that looked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Host Jimmy Fallon and singer-songwriter Gwen Stefani with The Roots during “Classroom Instruments” on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. ...

There's a video that's been circulating online since Tuesday, and it frames itself like this: a woman walks around New York City for 10 hours, with a camera secretly recording as she gets ...

Gwen Stefani ain't no hollaback girl. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, the "Cool" singer, Jimmy Fallon and The Roots jammed out to her 2004 hit song "Hollaback Girl" on classroom instruments — and it was indeed ...