Over 1 million Venezuelans have migrated to the United States due to the political crisis which has been ongoing since Hugo Chavez took power in 1999. Of these immigrants over 26,000 live in the Washington metropolitan area. The United States is not Venezuela. However, there are lessons that can be drawn from Venezuela in the
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What is the definition of the American Dream? The clash of liberalism and conservatism met at its finest debate at Cambridge University in 1965. That’s when James Baldwin and William F. Buckley argued over whether or not the American Dream had been achieved at the expense of the American Negro. Liberal vs Conservative Baldwin discussed
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On Wednesday July 22nd, hundreds of incoming Howard University freshmen received an email from administration stating they were “unenrolled” from their upcoming academic semester due to outstanding balances without payment plans. The email came as a horrific shock to many of its over 500 recipients, all of whom just weeks away from the beginning of
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For many Americans born in the U.S., citizenship has never been something they had to think about. It isn’t earned through years of paperwork or a naturalization ceremony; it is simply something they always had. If you were born in the United States, you were an American. For generations, that seemed like an unquestionable fact.
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Society is obsessed with controlling women. Whether it’s the Salem Witch Trials, the overturning of Roe V. Wade, or the rise of ‘incel’ culture, history has proven time and time again that there’s an infatuation with monitoring how women exist in their bodies. When a woman naturally embodies a spirit that defies these systems of
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A couple of summers ago, my mom, my brother, and I were eating lunch and talking about climate change, probably because of the floods we’d seen hit Senegal, where we used to live, or the dramatic rainfall patterns in Panama, where we were living at the time. In that conversation, a question stuck with me:
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Washington called it a victory. Six months later, Venezuela is unstable, Cuba is in a humanitarian crisis, Iran is devastated, and American credibility is in freefall. Is this what winning looks like? Since Nicolás Maduro’s capture on January 3rd, Venezuela has reached a seven-year high of oil exports, adding up to an estimated $8 billion.
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On a Tuesday evening, as rush hour began to die down, Solid State Books opened its doors for the community to gather around a live poetry reading and conversation about fatherhood. Their H Street location, home to a coffee shop serving up canned cold brew and glasses of rosé, was warmly lit and sprawling with
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Some books are just for fun, others teach you something new, and a few actually change how you see the world. Treating Violence: An Emergency Room Doctor Takes on a Deadly American Epidemic is one of those rare books. Dr. Rob Gore, an emergency room physician, blends his own story, real-life medical experiences, and sharp
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This year’s 51st annual Capital Pride festival in Washington, D.C. was held last weekend from June 20-21st. The festival featured musical performances from Maren Morris, Leikeli47, Lisa Lisa, DJ Harrison, Myki Meeks, and Tracy Young – all LGBTQ+ performers, celebrating with the crowd free of cost across three stages. Last year, the Capital Pride festival
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