by Madison Muller | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Over 70,000 immigrants were expelled at the Mexico border during the month of February, President Joe Biden’s first full month in office, under a directive put in place by the Trump administration to target them as public health threats,...
by Alicia Diaz | Mar 10, 2021 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Mr. Braxton Bar and Kitchen, a Black-owned restaurant in Washington, distributed 700 free meals to residents, front-line workers and emergency first responders last weekend, one of eight Black-owned restaurants in cities across the country that...
by Nicholas Portuondo | Mar 10, 2021 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – With Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, announcing her intention to confirm Rep. Deb Haaland, it seems almost certain that the United States will have its first Native American Interior secretary and Cabinet member. If Haaland’s potential...
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 Julia Benbrook | Mar 9, 2021 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Some large banks have recently decided to invest in Black-owned banks whose leaders say they perform an important role in increasing underserved communities’ access to financial institutions, as well as reinvesting in their communities. Black-owned...
by Cheyanne M. Daniels and Madison Muller | 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...
