A controversial federal lawsuit spurs students to confront the nuances of diversity.
Miho Watabe
Miho Watabe is an editorial intern at The American Prospect.
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Tree of Life Vigils Assert Unity in the Face of Hate
On Tuesday, Bend the Arc: Jewish Action, a nationwide movement of progressive Jews, led a vigil in front of the White House in the wake of the October 27 massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 dead. The action, along with similar vigils coordinated across the country, mourned the shooting’s victims while […]
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Diversity Triumphs as Women Candidates Gain Ground in 2018
Not only are record numbers of women running for office across the country, the 2018 list of candidates is markedly more diverse than in previous elections. According a new report released by the Reflective Democracy Campaign, an offshoot project of the nonprofit Women Donors Network, it’s the closest that the party has gotten to genuinely […]
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Post Office Workers to Trump: ‘U.S. Mail: Not for Sale’
All four postal service worker unions (the National Association of Letter Carriers, the American Postal Workers Union, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union) plan to keep up their fight against the Trump administration’s push to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). On Columbus Day, October 8, postal workers […]
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Thursday’s Anti-Kavanaugh March
Sexual-assault survivors and protesters demonstrated in front of the Supreme Court against Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.