by Alicia Diaz | Nov 3, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics
MANASSAS, Va. — Voters in three northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington hit the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in the 2020 presidential election, with widely diverging views on who should be president for the next four years. Manassas County...
by Alicia Diaz | Nov 2, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
Iesha Malone wants her community to feel like home. So she has set out to create Rose Café, a bookstore and coffee shop to be stocked with books that elevate Black voices and empower the residents of her neighborhood in the southside of Chicago. “I can only be...
by Alicia Diaz | Nov 1, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured
WASHINGTON – With only a few days left before Election Day, a number of corporations are highlighting the importance of civic engagement by providing paid time off for employees to vote this year. Civic engagement advocates hope this will eliminate a common reason...
by Alicia Diaz | Oct 30, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured
FAIRFAX, VA — Early in-person voters in Fairfax County, VA confronted long lines this week, which at times extended to two hours long. Last week, the Fairfax County NAACP released a statement demanding the Fairfax Board of Supervisors to make serious mitigations to...
by Alicia Diaz | Oct 14, 2020 | Featured, Politics, Social Justice
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether law enforcement officers can be granted qualified immunity when using force to detain a suspect who has escaped or whether they can be charged under the Fourth Amendment with use of excessive force....
