Since the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent genocidal war on Palestinians, many universities have experienced a simmering battle between those supporting Israel’s Zionist policies and those protesting them. Soon after Israel’s disproportionate...
On Monday, October 23, about 160 students, faculty, staff, and community members showed up to a student-organized vigil and speak out for Palestine at Johns Hopkins University. It was an incredibly moving event. It started with a vigil, where speakers voiced their...
After the hottest summer on record this year, we are learning more about what we will have to face in a global-heating future. At the forefront of the news are the disasters – hurricanes, wildfires, floods, etc. – that are becoming more extreme and frequent year after...
School libraries are being eliminated in Houston, Texas’s largest public school district, focusing on Black, Latino, and low-income areas. The Houston Independent School District superintendent, Mike Miles, has fired librarians across 28 schools and intends to convert...
The trial over the shooting of a motorist by a teenage squeegee worker in Baltimore has come to an end. A year after the shooting the jury reached the verdict that the teenager, tried as an adult, was guilty of voluntary manslaughter, the use of a firearm in a crime,...
