NEW YORK CITY – JUNE 28 2015: The 45th annual LGBT Pride parade drew an estimated two million spectators buoyed by the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling on same sex marriage. Planned Parenthood. (Shutterstock) By Lisa Mascaro, AP WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to vote to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, a direct confrontation […]
Miami, FL, United States – July 11, 2021: Cuban Exiles Rally at Versailles Restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana in Support of Protesters in Cuba. (Shutterstock) By Reuters WASHINGTON/HAVANA, July 9 (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions on Saturday against 28 Cuban officials that it said were implicated in a crackdown on largely […]
Chicago, Il USA – 06 24 2022: Large crowds protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade (Shutterstock) By America’s Voice One of the many lessons of the Supreme Court decision to overturn federal legal protection for abortion is that elections have consequences. When we decide not to vote because our candidate didn’t win the nomination—or […]
San Antonio, Texas United States – June 28, 2022: Carlos Eduardo Espina lays 51 roses at a makeshift memorial for the migrants who died after being locked in a trailer (Shutterstock) By Melissa Gaffney, Quinn Owen, Morgan Winsor, Nadine El-bawab, and Ivan Pereira, ABC News At least 53 people are dead after dozens were found […]
Porlamar, Venezuela. September 17th, 2016: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro before the opening ceremony at the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela (Shutterstock) By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A US government delegation quietly traveled to Venezuela “for discussions about the welfare and safety of US nationals in Venezuela,” a State Department spokesperson told CNN on […]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA – June 19th, 2021: Black African-American fraternities participated and walked in Juneteenth celebration parade. (Shutterstock) By Sydney Combs, National Geographic Known to some as the country’s “second Independence Day,” Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States at the end of the Civil War. For more than 150 years, […]
US Supreme Court Nominee hearing Sonia Sotomayor July 13, 2009 in Washington, DC (Shutterstock) By Mackenzie Long, Teen Vogue The Supreme Court has always been shrouded in mystery and essentially free from accountability. That’s largely by design. Oral arguments, final decisions, and written orders are the only aspects of justices’ work that are regularly made […]
Students from Miguel Contreras Learning Center high school protest in front of City Hall after walking out of school to protest gun violence in Los Angeles, May 31, 2022. (Shutterstock) (Albany, NY) Today, the Senate Democratic Majority is passing legislation to strengthen gun safety measures and ensure deadly weapons stay out of the wrong hands. […]
New wear Orange and gather to honor all those lost to gun violence in Buffalo, Texas, NYC and across America, at Foley Square, New York City on May 26, 2022. (Shutterstock) By America’s Voice Washington, DC – USA Today published an important story over the weekend: “Republican leaders yet to denounce racist replacement theory repeated […]
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Anita Snow, AP News HONOLULU (AP) — After guests checked out of a corner room at the Hilton Hawaiian Village resort on Waikiki beach, housekeeper Luz Espejo collected enough trash, some strewn under beds, to stuff seven large garbage bags. She stripped the linens from the beds, wiped built-up dust […]