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Confederate statues endure throughout the halls of Congress

Confederate statues endure throughout the halls of Congress

by Shannon Coan | Mar 30, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — From where Rosa Parks’ statue sits in National Statuary Hall, her likeness stares at a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. A couple of statues away from her sits Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens. There are more statues of...
Pro-impeachment Republicans outraising Trump’s hand-picked challengers

Pro-impeachment Republicans outraising Trump’s hand-picked challengers

by Zachary Kessel | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON – For years, political prognosticators prophesied the coming civil war within the Republican Party, and for years, the expected reckoning on the right has failed to come to pass. Now, with the GOP out of power and former president Donald Trump still hung up...
Washington D.C. Favors A Statehood Pact With Puerto Rico

Washington D.C. Favors A Statehood Pact With Puerto Rico

by Diego Ramos Bechara | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics

It began with Missouri and Maine back in 1890.  It ended in 1959, when Democrats pressured Republican President Eisenhower to grant statehood to Alaska if he hoped to make Hawaii the 50th state.  For decades, states were added into the Union in pairs, the intent of...
VIDEO: Activists on the local, state and national level fight for prison phone justice

VIDEO: Activists on the local, state and national level fight for prison phone justice

by Julia Richardson | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Activists and lawmakers are fighting for incarcerated individuals’ right to stay in touch with the people they love. “For someone who’s really isolated from their support systems, a phone call is really all they’ve got,” said Kelsey De Avila,...
LISTEN: Assessing cable news coverage of Ukrainian conflict

LISTEN: Assessing cable news coverage of Ukrainian conflict

by Zachary Kessel | Mar 16, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON — Public faith in mass media has reached an all-time low over the past few years. With coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine boosting program ratings, cable news networks have an opportunity to shore up their credibility in the eyes of the American...
VIDEO: ‘People’s Convoy’ arrives in D.C. area, meets with lawmakers

VIDEO: ‘People’s Convoy’ arrives in D.C. area, meets with lawmakers

by Jenny Huh | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON — The People’s Convoy, also known as the “Freedom Convoy,” reached the D.C. area Sunday morning, looping twice around the Capital Beltway. About 1,000 vehicles participated, according to The Washington Post. Inspired by the Canadian freedom convoy protests...
Biden announces ban on Russian oil imports: Photos

Biden announces ban on Russian oil imports: Photos

by Samantha Aguilar | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced the U.S. will ban imports of Russian oil and gas on Tuesday, minutes before boarding Marine One to Fort Worth, Texas.  Biden, accompanied by Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, traveled to speak with veterans and VA...
After False Starts, D.C. Convoy Excites Supporters But Merely Perplexes Commuters: Photos

After False Starts, D.C. Convoy Excites Supporters But Merely Perplexes Commuters: Photos

by Zachary Miller | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — The arrival of several truck convoys in the nation’s capital has, so far, failed to live up to the hype. In February, anti-vaccine and anti-mask protestors used cars and trucks to blockade Ottawa and a nearby major shipping highway. Similar protests...
The “neglected epidemic” of missing BIPOC women and girls

The “neglected epidemic” of missing BIPOC women and girls

by Julia Richardson | Mar 8, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Despite making up only 16% of the population, 40% of women and girls reported missing in 2020 were people of color, according to the U.S. Census. Natalie Wilson, founder of the Black and Missing Foundation, testified during a House Committee on Oversight...
Republicans respond to Rep. Greene’s raucous rant

Republicans respond to Rep. Greene’s raucous rant

by Zachary Kessel | Mar 3, 2022 | Featured, Politics, State of the Union

WASHINGTON – While Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-Iowa) dinged President Joe Biden on issues salient to the American people like crime, education and inflation in the official GOP response to the State of the Union, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took a different approach...
A progressive push to make abortion “unnecessary and unthinkable”

A progressive push to make abortion “unnecessary and unthinkable”

by Shannon Coan | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Cherilyn Holloway was born and raised in Oberlin, Ohio, a key stop on the Underground Railroad. She was taught to be proud of that history and to stand for justice. After the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, she took to the streets and founded...
Activists emphasize the importance of intersectionality in justice advocacy

Activists emphasize the importance of intersectionality in justice advocacy

by Shannon Coan | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Reproductive health advocates expressed their fears about the future of abortion access at the National Organization for Women’s Racial Justice Summit recently. “We have never been closer to losing a fundamental constitutional right,” said Alexis McGill...
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