CPAC is ready to keep celebrating Trump
David Weigel, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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Then-President Donald Trump hugs a U.S. flag as he takes the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 2, 2019. He will speak to CPAC on Sunday.Photo for The Washington Post by J. Lawler Duggan
One panel will discuss whether tech companies are colluding to deprive us of our humanity. One speech will explore what to do when a social media network de-platforms a conservative by deleting his account. And seven main-stage panels or speeches will litigate the 2020 election, with panelists who mostly - and incorrectly - argue that Donald Trump won.
Ayala: Darkness doesn t win - counter COVID stress with love, forgiveness, fortitude
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Community advocate Queta Rodriguez waits to help Fair Avenue Apartments resident Deidra Anderson, 57, get on a VIA bus transporting residents to a downtown hotel on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. The residents had been living without water and electricity since the previous Sunday. Cynthia Díaz de León, a licensed psychologist at the Clarity Child Guidance Center, says helping others is one way of dealing with stressful situations.Lisa Krantz /Staff photographer
Let’s count the stressful events of the last year.
The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 500,000 people in the United States, more than 2,500 of them in Bexar County.
Evansville teachers wear black to send message to state lawmakers
Evansville teachers wear black to send message to state lawmakers By Keaton Eberly | February 24, 2021 at 11:12 PM CST - Updated February 24 at 11:12 PM
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WFIE) - Local teachers made their voices heard on Wednesday, not by what they said, but what they wore.
Wednesday was #Blackout4Ed.
Evansville Teachers Association President Michael Rust says it’s a grassroots movement for Indiana teachers to take a stance.
Rust says teachers are not being heard about key issues, including a lack of prioritizing teachers for vaccines, lack of pay, and most recently House Bill 1005, among others.
Queen s Gambit actor Moses Ingram s unrelenting journey from West Baltimore to Hollywood
Keith L. Alexander, The Washington Post
Feb. 25, 2021
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In 2012, Moses Ingram, then a freshman at Baltimore City Community College, sat down with a student adviser and shared her goal. She wanted to be an actor.
The adviser picked out a thick book of professions, plunked it in front of her and told her to pick something, Ingram said.
As she stormed away, Ingram considered dropping out. But before she left the building, she walked into another adviser s office. Ingram steeled herself for another brush off. But Nana Gyesie had a different message: He was there to nurture.