| Sep 2, 2020 | Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAfter Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, his autopsy report revealed that at the young age of 39, he had “the heart of a 60-year old.” Doctors concluded that King’s heart had aged due to the stress and pressure endured throughout his 13-year civil...
| Aug 19, 2020 | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyAs the recently departed progressive champion John Lewis warned, your right to vote “is not guaranteed. You can lose it.” You see, it’s one thing to “have the right” to cast your ballot, but it’s quite another thing to be able to exercise that right. During the past...
| | Economy / Business|Environment / Health|HP SubfeaturedIn a few weeks, I begin my semester as a teaching assistant in an undergraduate sociology class. I am not sure what to expect. Last March, when our school sent the students home, everything happened suddenly. We weren’t sure what time zones our students would be in....
| Jun 29, 2020 | Economy / Business|Editors Picks|Environment / Health|HP Featured|Rights / DemocracyAt first, we had no masks. The plan for social distancing was chaotic at best, nonexistent at worst. Hundreds of angry customers were clamoring to get in. And there I was, working the floor of a big box store during a pandemic. It was all hands on deck as COVID-19 hit...
