by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Mar 21, 2021 | Coronavirus, Featured, Topics
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said cities need to do more to change systemic inequities that have become exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and pointed to his city’s COVID-19 relief programs for businesses that target historically underresourced areas. Speaking at...
by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Mar 17, 2021 | Featured, Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON — While the House passed the Equality Act that would expand the federal Civil Rights Act to protect members of the LGBT community last month, Democrats’ Senate majority means it’s unlikely to reach President Joe Biden’s desk....
by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Mar 11, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Politics
WASHINGTON — Prior to the 2020 election, some Palestinian-Americans felt that although Joe Biden was a better choice for president than President Donald Trump, he was still “the lesser of two evils.” Six days after Biden’s inauguration, the Biden administration...
by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Mar 10, 2021 | Coronavirus, Featured
When the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Illinois a year ago, Gov. J.B. Pritzker instated a mandatory stay-at-home order. Now the state has more than 800 vaccination sites, and nearly 3 million residents have been vaccinated so far. Even so, life in Illinois isn’t back...
by Cheyanne M. Daniels | Mar 9, 2021 | Coronavirus, Featured, Social Justice
Robert Cloutier, fifty-seven, has spent more than half of his life at Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois. Incarcerated for nearly forty years, Cloutier has one of the more dangerous prison jobs during the pandemic: disposing of the prison’s biohazard...
