The Afghan Diaspora for Equality and Progress is relieved at the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. But if we’ve learned anything from the past few months — through uprisings against racial injustice, through a global pandemic that has affected all of our lives, through a self-reckoning in our own community about our complicity in an unjust system — it’s…
The blue wave is here and it came in on a tide of progressives, women of color, and history-making victories. Last night, the Democrats took control of a deeply gerrymandered House of Representatives after nearly a decade out of power, flipped 333 seats, swept into multiple governor mansions, and laid down the foundation for a 2020 ground game. Women of…
Written by Arash Azizzada. Do you want the good news or the bad news first? Okay, good news first: if you are a felon on parole in the state of New York, you should soon be able to vote again. Your voter rights will be be reinstated, per executive order of Andrew Cuomo, governor of the Empire State. Today I’m…