Hannah Sorila is a writer and community organizer who aims to align intention and impact...
GUILFORD-So Trump has been elected - again. If last time was bad, this time will...
The writers note that they originally sent this letter to their congregation. "We offer it...
WESTMINSTER WEST-Thank you to David Brooks for clearly saying in his Nov. 8 New York...
Marlboro College and the University of Bridgeport have unveiled the two institutions' intent to merge, with the intent of creating an education experience that bridges the Connecticut university's professional programs with the Vermont college's self-directed liberal arts education. The two schools have announced that the next incarnation of Marlboro will be as the Marlboro College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Bridgeport. As part of what Marlboro President Kevin F.F. Quigley describes as a true and equal partnership,
College campuses with swastikas on the sidewalks and in bathroom stalls. A white woman verbally abusing two Latinx women for speaking Spanish in a public space. A group of white racists destroying a Black child's birthday party. A Black woman is shot and killed by a police officer while playing video games with her nephew in her own home. Former State Rep. Kiah Morris being harassed out of the Legislature in our very own state by a racist monster who...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) presents famed pseudonymous art activist “Frida Kahlo” of the Guerrilla Girls on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 7 p.m., in person at Epsilon Spires (190 Main Street) and livestreamed via Zoom. Wearing her trademark gorilla mask, Kahlo will share “Trade Secrets” from the Guerrilla Girls' decades of exposing gender biases and discrimination in the worlds of art and culture. She will reveal how the activist collective creates posters, billboards, books, and actions that use...
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