The problems at Laura’s job began long before the pandemic. Custodial staff are among the lowest paid workers at the University of Arizona despite facing some of the harshest labor. The workload has taken a horrible toll on Laura’s health. She said before becoming a custodial worker at
Keisha Murphy is on the frontlines of fighting COVID-19 as a registered nurse based in San Bernardino County, California. While the pandemic poses new challenges to her important work, the road to her nursing career was also riddled with obstacles for one reason: Murphy’s prior felony conviction. Murphy
Soon after Sharlet Pringle learned the happy news that she was pregnant in early 2017, her doctor warned she was at high risk of having a miscarriage. The doctor urged the New York City bus driver to rest and take care of herself, but working seven-hour shifts driving a
When Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson talks about what inspired him to run for the North Carolina office he now holds, he often cites the state’s perhaps most famous sheriff: TV’s Andy Griffith. Johnson, who supported the arrest and pepper spraying of demonstrators at a peaceful get-out-
On Jan. 20, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will make history as the nation’s first ever woman of color to be sworn into the second-highest office in the land. The history behind Harris’ election has been momentarily eclipsed by ballot count delays, a days-long period of intense
After an “Election Day” that spanned nearly an entire workweek as states counted unprecedented numbers of mail-in ballots, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris have been elected president and vice president of the United States, defeating incumbent President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The
In the last two weeks, 12 climate activists were arrested after shutting down the North Brooklyn pipeline site by chaining their bodies to the construction. The in-progress National Grid-owned pipeline would carry fracked gas through Black and brown neighborhoods in Bushwick, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and Williamsburg. This project is
Eugenics is still happening in the U.S. under the direction of medical authority. It’s a pseudoscientific excuse for unethical, racist, or even genocidal practices such as involuntary sterilization. Most recently, Dawn Wooten, a nurse working in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Ocilla,
While much remains uncertain about the results of this year’s election, across the country results have begun to roll in on key down-ballot races and ballot initiatives that addressed some of the most major issues facing the United States. As Prism previously reported, affirmative action, criminal justice reforms,
Melanie Mitchell says that when the police began pepper spraying the ground near her and her children’s feet, her five-year-old daughter was the first to feel the effect. The young child, terrified, took off running across the road. Mitchell’s 11-year-old daughter felt the effects
Millions of people in the United States have lost their jobs and cannot afford to pay rent due to business shutdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although residents are facing unemployment and lack of financial support during the pandemic, landlords are still evicting them from their homes. The CDC issued
This election cycle has brought massive get-out-the vote efforts and awareness campaigns, but the ones by artists are arguably the most fun and entertaining. Art has never been apolitical, and the last four years have brought a surge in the number of artists using their craft to resist
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