On April 5, 2025, millions of Americans took to the streets to protest myriad issues, ranging from wanting the unelected South African out of our government, the inhumane treat of immigrants, the tariffs, and the overall destruction of our societal framework. The protests were organized as part of the 50501 movement and promoted as Hands …
Between 2014 and 2020, I attended a number of protests in Boston; Portland, Maine; and Chicago. Of all the protests that I attended during that time, there are two in particular that I still remember in vivid detail. One was in Boston in 2017, in the aftermath of the Charlottesville white nationalist rally that left …
It has been almost 21 years since my mother died and I still remember that night as if it were yesterday. My mother was in a nursing home after brain surgery had taken a turn for the worse. It was the early 00s and cell phone technologies weren’t what they are now. My father had …