by Alexander Gephart | Apr 13, 2018 | University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee recently held the event “MLK 50” in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the tragic loss of the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, who helped unify the people of the city through the message of still needed change within our...
by Wallace Anne Cloud | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
This week I attended a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters of Saratoga County entitled “The First Amendment: Our Obligation to Assemble, Protest, and Protect the Free Press.” According to its website, the League of Women Voters is “a nonpartisan political...
by Anne Pfeifenberger | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
Students have taken to the streets in the largest showing of a student led movement since the Anti-War Movement protesting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. On March 24, students, teachers, and supporters of further gun restrictions took to the streets in over 800 marches...
by Izzi Bertolozzi | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
On Saturday, March 24th I attended the March for Our Lives in Albany, NY. Since the election in 2016 there seem to be more marches than usual, whether they be for science, women or equality. There was one big difference between those marches and the March for Our...
by Jillian Seigel | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
On March 24th, thousands of people across the country and around the world took to the streets and protested American gun laws. With the United States being one of the most powerful countries in the world but also one of the leading countries with the most instances...