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  • How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America

    How Drag Queen Story Hour Expanded Across America0

    Drag Queen Story Hours started out as niche events on the West Coast, but these events – aimed at children as young as age 3 – have spread to libraries and schools across the United States, dividing local communities. These story hours are “just what they sound like,” Drag Queen Story Hour’s official website states: drag queens reading to children.

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  • Bernie Sanders Is the Democrat to Beat

    Bernie Sanders Is the Democrat to Beat0

    With less than a week to go before the official kickoff of the Democratic primaries, the parallels between the dynamics of the 2020 primaries and the contest in 2016 are almost uncanny. If there is both one key similarity and one major difference, they both involve the socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders. The similarity

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  • ‘Typical Americans’: A Celebration of Us

    ‘Typical Americans’: A Celebration of Us0

    This Sunday, February 2, brings us Superbowl LIV, pitting the San Francisco 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs. That same event also features a one-minute advertisement that should bring joy to all of us who love America. Called “Typical American,” this Budweiser ad provides viewers an exuberant look at the American people, accompanied by a dry sense

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  • The Loss of American Civic Pride

    The Loss of American Civic Pride0

    The wonderful feeling of striking the ball just so and seeing it fly from your bat. The wind in your face as you fly around the bases. The giddiness of scoring the winning run for your hometown team as your friends and neighbors cheer you on. Baseball: America’s pastime, and one of the many ways

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  • ‘Miss Virginia’ Depicts the Education Dilemma of Many Lower-Income Families

    ‘Miss Virginia’ Depicts the Education Dilemma of Many Lower-Income Families0

    Every once in awhile, a film comes along that you can’t stop thinking about long after the credits roll. Miss Virginia is such a movie. With superb acting and heart-wrenching emotion, it features the true story of Virginia Walden Ford, a Washington, D.C. mom who simply wanted better education options for her child and who would

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  • The Double Voting Problem

    The Double Voting Problem0

    It’s 2020, which means election year is upon us. And although Washington is currently preoccupied with the impeachment melodrama going on in the Senate, we should not lose sight of problems in our voter registration and election process that imperil the integrity of upcoming local, state, and federal elections.   When our citizens exercise their right to

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