by Katie Livingstone | Nov 2, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON—Despite historic levels of diversity on ballots nationwide, voters in the 2020 election are less concerned with a candidate’s race or gender than in times past. A candidate’s race or gender still plays a role in many people’s decision to vote. But...
by Alicia Diaz | Nov 2, 2020 | Business & Tech, Featured
Iesha Malone wants her community to feel like home. So she has set out to create Rose Café, a bookstore and coffee shop to be stocked with books that elevate Black voices and empower the residents of her neighborhood in the southside of Chicago. “I can only be...
by India Walton | Nov 1, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics
BALTIMORE, MD — With the Nov. 3 election nearly here, students at historically Black colleges and universities in Maryland have created unconventional initiatives to encourage voter mobilization on their campuses despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Morgan State University...
by Amanda Rooker | Oct 31, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country in the closing months of the presidential campaign, Democratic campaign workers have been forced off the trail and into their living rooms where they’ve cold called hundreds of people a day —...
by Amanda Rooker | Oct 31, 2020 | Campaign2020, Featured, Topics
ROCKVILLE, MD — With three days left until Election Day, roughly 90 million people have cast their ballots early, more than 50% of overall turnout in the 2016 election. Long lines at early voting sites, huge increases of mail-in ballots, and polls showing sky-high...
by Julia Benbrook | Oct 29, 2020 | Breaking News, Politics
WASHINGTON –Just hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Thursday, she once again asked for a response from the Trump administration to her demands for state and local funding and other relief money to move forward...
