National

From Marilyn Monroe serenading a youthful, ebullient President Kennedy to George Lucas offering A New Hope in the midst of the Cold War, Hollywood has captured the political and cultural zeitgeist of each successive generation of Americans… The story of Hollywood is the story of America, and its decline forebodes a narrower, more sterile future for all of us.

Following 1954’s Brown v. Board of Education, many efforts were made to provide accelerated learning opportunities to students from historically underserved communities, but those programs have not properly developed as the solution to dismantling centuries of systemic discrimination.

Despite technology’s reputation as being objective, the very structure that modern tech relies upon lends itself to the propagation of racism through omission.

A mask is a cloth buy-in to a social contract. Law enforcement consider themselves exempt.

Over the past months, Wisconsin’s Republican have chosen politics over public safety, liberty over the rule of law, and the party’s interests over the country’s, all with the blessing of the state’s Supreme Court.

With leadership shrouded in lethargy, instead of progressing forward with ambition and determination, the U.S. finds itself morphing into a mere shadow of its former self.

Police brutality and mass incarceration occupy significant space within the torn and ragged picture of our country’s rampant health care injustice. But as the pandemic sharpens and clarifies these disparities, elevating their life-or-death stakes to new levels, we grant law enforcement even more control.