As a school continually ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the most politically active in the nation, here at AU it’s worth positing the question: how do ya figure that?
Well, any minor search into the rankings goliath that is the Review will tell you that these results are shady at best.
A block away from northeast DC's Union Market—a radically-remodeled culinary destination—dozens of businesses specializing in wholesale jewelry, clothing, groceries and restaurant supplies operate from a group of run-down warehouses.
When we think of torture survivors, we usually don’t think of the people we pass on the street, going about their lives and living in our communities, but there are 50,000 in the DC region alone according to the Torture Abolition and Survivor Support Coalition (TASSC).
Luckily, the woman wasn’t dead. But she could have been, had the car been going a little bit faster, had she fallen a little bit harder, had she hit her head on the way down.
When we arrived on the scene, she was sitting up and speaking to an officer while two more positioned their cars, blue lights flashing, at either end of the block to prevent traffic from driving through.
When a conspicuously white reporter walks into Eagles Barber Shop on lower Georgia Avenue, several guys there have a question.“You going to write a story about gentrification?”
Though some local residents feel insulted by the word gentrification, the barbers and customers at Eagles want me to hear the word.
