by Christina van Waasbergen | Sep 29, 2022 | Politics
FAIRFAX, Va.– Students across Virginia walked out of class Tuesday in protest against the state’s new policies that restrict the rights of transgender students. Students at Fairfax High School walked out at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and stood in front of the school for...
by Joslyn Richardson | Sep 29, 2022 | Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week called for stiffer penalties, tougher enforcement, and fewer loopholes after existing sanctions against Russia failed to restrain Russian President Vladimir Putin. Seven...
by Rashida Sherie Anderson-Abdullah | Sep 29, 2022 | Education
WASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges and universities are drivers of upward mobility for not just their students but also the communities where they are located. After the racial reckoning of 2020 prompted by the murder of George Floyd, millions of dollars were...
by Jeannie Michele Kopstein | Jun 29, 2022 | Politics
PHOENIX – Like a number of other Republican contenders in the 2022 primaries, far right politicians in Arizona, including gubernatorial candidates Karrin Taylor Robson and Kari Lake and secretary of state candidate Mark Finchem, are using the disproved narrative...
by Zoya Mirza and Julia Mueller | May 26, 2022 | Featured, Politics
DENVER – A trio of Republicans are jostling for the GOP nomination in the Colorado secretary of state primaries, with former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, indicted on election fraud charges, leading the Republican fundraising but well behind Democrat incumbent Jena...
by Catherine Buchaniec, Annie Klingenberg and Julia Shapero | May 25, 2022 | Featured, Politics
ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger beat out Trump-endorsed candidate Rep. Jody Hice to win the Republican primary for secretary of state on Tuesday. The sitting secretary of state won 52.3% of the vote, while Hice, who represents Georgia’s...
