by Ariana Puzzo | Aug 8, 2019 | Politics, Topics
DETROIT – Activists marched and chanted in the streets of Detroit last week during the two-day Democratic Debates. Local politicians and presidential candidates, such as South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, showed support by attending rallies. The...
by Ariana Puzzo | Aug 6, 2019 | Politics
DETROIT – Activists protested, chanted, got arrested and otherwise tried to draw attention to issues last week that will determine who they support in the 2020 presidential election – issues ranging from climate change, health care for veterans and anti-abortion laws....
by Ariana Puzzo | Jul 28, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – A group of New York congressmen and women are pushing for a statue of Harriet Tubman to be in the United States Capitol, which would make it only the second statue of a black American woman in the U.S. Capitol. The first statue honored civil rights...
by Ariana Puzzo | Jul 23, 2019 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Colleges do not adequately meet the needs of marginalized students, such as LGBTQ people or low-income students, but renewing the higher education law could address inequity by tackling student debt, assessing workplace success and increasing services to...
by Ariana Puzzo | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Susan Kent Avjian, whose parents are Holocaust survivors, says she refuses to stay silent about immigrant detention facilities at the U.S. southern border because it reminds her of the path that led to the genocide of Jewish Europeans by German Nazis in...
