BRATTLEBORO — I am so proud of what Ann Braden has done, and I have been honored to work with her on GunSense Vt. projects. I believe she will be an amazing senator when her time comes.
(Also, her successor is Clai Lasher-Sommers, not Lashman.)
Meg Mott is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself as...
Pablo Bose is a professor in the Department of Geography and Geosciences at the University...
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“It's shocking that in the 109-year history of the NAACP, it's never touched southeastern Vermont,” said Steffen Gillom, president and co-founder of the Windham County National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In February, that changed. The organization received its charter after meeting the NAACP's requirements, which included creating an organizing committee to recruit 100 members for what would become the local chapter. Founded in 1909 by people - white and African-American alike - in response to anti-black violence,
Students in Brattleboro and Dummerston recently received a visit from an ambassador named Juliet Lubwama. Unlike some ambassadors, Lubwama isn't a diplomat from another country. She's a literary ambassador from suburban Philadelphia, and she is traveling around the northeast U.S. visiting schools and community groups to give workshops on poetry. Lubwama, a high school senior from Downington, Pa., was recently chosen from thousands of young writers to be one of five National Student Poets. The award is granted by the...
In a shocking move, during a time of crisis in our country, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), announced on July 24 that it intends to roll back protections for transgender people. The proposed policy reconsiders protections put into place in 2016 which allowed transgender people to access shelter space based upon their gender identity, not their sex assigned at birth. The removal of this protection would permit shelters to establish policies that disregard their gender identity.
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