by Kaila Nichols | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Before moving to DC in 2014, Zachary Ferguson rarely thought about the district’s voting rights. Now, he realizes that thousands of Americans do not have voting members in the Senate or House of Representatives. Last August, Ferguson wrote the...
by Molly Burke | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured, Politics
Democrats have a lot of criticisms of the majority-conservative Supreme Court these days. Recently, however, the targets of scrutiny surprisingly include liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Some on the political left have called on the two justices to...
by Lynn Liu | Mar 7, 2023 | Politics
It has been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. On Feb.25, 2023, a mass rally took place in Washington, D.C. in front of the Lincoln Memorial, organized by Razom and other pro-Ukraine organizations. The Ukraine Ambassador, Ukrainian organizations,...
by Evan Robinson-Johnson | Mar 4, 2023 | Immigration
After his dad was nearly killed during political turmoil in Cuba, Yoandry fled to Nicaragua, then to Mexico. He made it all the way to the U.S. border south of San Diego only to be stopped by an app that wouldn’t recognize his darker skin. The 31-year-old is now...
by Kaila Nichols | Mar 2, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Outside the Supreme Court Tuesday, hundreds of advocates for student loan forgiveness gathered. Music blasted over speakers and people held up handwritten signs calling on the Supreme Court to “cancel student debt now.” The anticipation surrounding...
by Kaila Nichols | Mar 1, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In a close to Black History Month, the White House hosted a reception Wednesday to celebrate Black people, their achievements and all the efforts the Biden-Harris administration has made to aid progress. “Black history is American history....