Emma-Claire Martin has been fighting the food service company Aramark since she was young. In the seventh grade, Martin marched to a school board meeting at her Rutledge, Pennsylvania. middle school with a power point presentation demanding healthier food from Aramark, who catered their lunches.
Ericka Menchen-Trevino is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication and digital...
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
On Dec. 4, 2016, Edgar Welch, 28, walked into Comet Ping Pong, a pizzeria in D.C. and fired three shots in the restaurant. He believed Hillary Clinton was...
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
After returning to the United States as an international student at AU in 2016, Noman Ahmed Ashraf found that the political climate had changed. Nationals...
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
Illustrated by Robin Weiner
As a teenager growing up in Philadelphia, Alizonaye Hardrick takes pride in her experience coming of age in a space that accepted...
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
Photographed by Melany Rochester
In the midst of a dense sea of knitted, pink, pussy hats that flowed down Independence Avenue, messages like “Respect...
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
Graphics by Rachel Wright
On Memorial Day 2005, Timothy and Janice Heyne were docking their boat at friend Steve Mazin’s home in Thousand Oaks, California...
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
Anacostia River, who?
The Anacostia River, often called the “forgotten river,” flows from Prince George’s County in Maryland to the Potomac River....
Originally published in Spring 2017, Issue 21.
Evelyn Hampton, a D.C. middle school teacher, removes condoms, needles and occasionally human feces from the front of her K Street home.
“They don’t...
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...
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...
