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Joe Biden, among his family, viewing his son’s casket. Photo courtesy of Intelligencer. Even before the spread of coronavirus across the United States, 2020 was a year marked with death.…
Pictured: A young person standing in front of various pictures related to sex and relationships, appearing confused. Photo courtesy of Medium, The Brazen Project. Let’s talk about sex, baby. Salt-N-Pepa…
Clouds hang over Detroit, MI, a city that is almost 80 percent Black and African American, and that has endured a skyrocketing number of COVID-19. Photo courtesy of Brittany Greeson…
Counter-Protesters in Scrubs Block Anti-Lockdown Campaigners in Denver. Photo courtesy of news.com.au On April 15, in a scene reminiscent of the 2009–2010 Tea Party rallies, thousands assembled on the…
Pictured: Vaccine and vial. Photo courtesy of TweakTown The COVID-19 pandemic requires global solidarity and cooperation to ensure effective response measures around the world, but blatant racism is unfortunately still…
Pictured: 2016 Massachusetts primary election ballots. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. The trajectory of the Democratic primary has changed dramatically in the span of a few weeks. After humiliating losses in…
Photo courtesy of Politico On April 6, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court decided to block a District Court order which extended the deadline to cast absentee ballots in…
Courtesy of Philadelphia Inquirers’ Tim Tai, Staff Photographer In 1900, when New York City was starting to experience an outbreak much smaller in scale compared to the current COVID-19 outbreak,…
Joe Biden, with his wife, Jill, in Columbia, SC after winning the South Carolina Democratic primary. Photo courtesy of GERALD HERBERT/AP Somewhere in the morass of contemporary American politics,…
President Trump signs into law H.R. 748, on 4/6/20 in the Oval Office. Photo courtesy of Erin Schaff/The New York Times On Friday, April 6, President Trump signed off on…