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An Epidemic: The Effect of HIV/AIDS on D.C.’s Homeless

Miranda Cleland January 30, 2017

Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21. In 1998, Wayne Turner, longtime HIV/AIDS activist, lost his partner Steve Michael to AIDS. Turner brought Michael’s body to the White House as an act of...

My Body, Whose Rights?

Planning For Parenthood
Marney Wood January 30, 2017

Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21. On Sept. 26, 2016, celebrities, politicians, activists and health care professionals gathered to celebrate the opening of a Planned Parenthood Health Center...

Nar(can) Save Lives: It's worth the Cost

Nar(can) Save Lives: It's worth the Cost

Will Fowler, Staff Editor January 25, 2017

Monetizing the opioid overdose reversal drug. 

Poisoning the District : Lead in D.C. Pipes

Poisoning the District : Lead in D.C. Pipes

Miranda Cleland January 25, 2017

How lead affects D.C.'s immigrant children.

Linking Suspension & Incarceration:Cuffing the Kids

Evangeline Lacroix, Editor in Chief December 9, 2015

It’s the unruly students in the corner of a classroom, the ones who tell fart jokes instead of math answers.

Female Bodybuilders Raise the Bar: GIRL POWER

Evangeline Lacroix, Editor in Chief May 9, 2015

This is not what she signed up for, the spotlight brightly shining down, glistening off her bikini, as she struts flirtatiously.

Environmentalism in Dubai and DC

Miranda Cleland January 8, 2015

More money, more problems. 

HIV's Rising Rates in the District

Julia Rapp November 10, 2014

How organizations work to erase the stigma and reduce rates

Commercializing Chinatown: Gallery Place

Commercializing Chinatown: Gallery Place

Evangeline Lacroix, Editor in Chief October 27, 2014

To walk out of the Gallery Place Metro Station is to be assaulted by bright flashing advertisements reflecting off of office windows.

At the table in front of the shirts, any passerby could stop and sign the pledge to help prevent domestic violence.

Supporting Survivors: Clothesline Project Begins Domestic Abuse Awareness Month

Anna Moneymaker October 12, 2014

Students wrote messages on t-shirts aimed at survivors of domestic abuse, in an event run by Peer Educators for the Elimination of Relationship and Sexual Violence (PEERS). Some were stories of abuse and others offered support.

Rewiring the Capitol: A Hacker Haven For All

Rewiring the Capitol: A Hacker Haven For All

Brendan Agnew April 30, 2014
DC innovators create community and space blimps
Diplomacy Blossoms: The Secret History of DC's Favorite Tree

Diplomacy Blossoms: The Secret History of DC's Favorite Tree

Jimmy Hoover April 30, 2014
It is late March in Washington DC, well into the world’s most pop- ular tree blossom festival; and yet winter, like a sozzled old man in a bar, is dragging its feet out the door.
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