The Iran war has brought cyber warfare to the front of political discussion specifically on critical infrastructure. Water and wastewater systems across a minimum of 12 states in the United States have recently reported cyberattacks. Reports point to a hacker group linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Local government institutions are targeted because these
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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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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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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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Saturday, January 24, 2026 I had the pleasure of awarding the first DC Voice Essay Contest awards to Jaydon and Jonathan Sam this Saturday at West Chester PA Seventh-day Adventist Church. The theme for the 2025 Essay Contest was My Church, Our Voice, Our History. We invited local youth in the Washington, D.C. area to join
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“In the South, no people have suffered such great oppression as the colored people…for no people has so little been done to uplift…” (Ellen G. White, 1899). My church, the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church, has historically fused faith with justice, building a legacy of racial equity, community empowerment, and cultural resilience that continues to shape
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The History: Black Adventist Journey “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared during America’s struggle for equality. That same spirit of stepping forward without seeing the whole path is reflected in the mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Founded in the mid-1800s,
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We’ve all been there. The clock strikes twelve, we scream “happy new year” with loved ones and familiar faces around. We toast to a new year and a new sense of self. Slipping into our beds, too tired to bother cleaning up, our minds linger on all the goals we have planned for the new
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