by Giulia Petroni | Aug 29, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON— As educators prepare for International Literacy Day on Sept. 8, a young activist works to foster her love of reading in her community of Anacostia in Southeast Washington D.C. Havana Chapman-Edwards, 7, hosted her first reading hour at Mahogany...
by Giulia Petroni | Aug 24, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON – Two weeks before Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing, reproductive rights activists disrupted Senate buildings Thursday with multiple demonstrations demanding that the Senate not act on Kavanaugh’s nomination. About 30 women...
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by Giulia Petroni | Aug 16, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Thousands of counter-protesters gathered in Washington on Sunday in response to the alt-right’s “Unite the Rally 2” one year after clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one woman dead. French...
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by Giulia Petroni | Aug 5, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The Newseum, which features the First Amendment on the outside of its building, has some items for sale in the gift shop that are getting a lot of attention – “Make America Great Again” baseball hats and T-shirts emblazoned with the words “You’re all fake...
by Giulia Petroni | Aug 2, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – The son of a fallen Marine, whose grief-stricken face became an iconic image of the war in Iraq in 2007, was presented with a scholarship Wednesday, along with more than 2,330 other young people whose parents served in the Marine Corps or Navy. In...
