When I was 15, I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. I missed a month of school after my first treatment, and my mother took unpaid time off from work at a childcare center. A few months after my initial surgery, my cancer progressed. I went through 5 weeks of radiation in the summer ...
All lives matter is the scapegoat statement used to acknowledge that black lives matter, also. BLM is a nonviolent movement to be heard. To demand change. To obliterate lack of inclusivity and false information. We are viewed as Animals, Thugs and something to be feared. Throughout decades of ...
In May, state police forcefully detained Jean Ronald Saint Preux, a black man from Albany, after smashing his vehicle window for an alleged inspection sticker violation. An NHPR study found that black Granite Staters are 5x more likely to be in jail than those who are white. As a New Hampshire ...
We have all been affected by COVID-19. I don’t need to tell you that. My son was a senior this year. He missed out on all the enjoyable parts of senior year. Most of us remember prom, senior skip day, senior trip, senior bbq, and of course graduation. We remember those last few months of ...
Our right to vote is facing an unprecedented threat in the form of a respiratory pandemic that is making polls a potentially deadly health risk to workers – many of whom are among the highest risk populations – and voters alike. Our present situation necessitates an upgrade to our voting ...
I like everyone else in the country watched in utter disbelief of the abhorrent killing of George Floyd at the hands of then Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin that fateful day in May. George Floyd’s unnecessary death went against everything that I, and all the police officers I know ...