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January 2017

A sign reads "We welcome refugees" at a demonstration in Boston's Copley Square on January 29, 2017. (Photo by Giulia Afiune/GroundTruth)
Rights

Trump travel ban riles American resistance

BOSTON — These are the new front lines of the fight for democratic values in America: airports, public...

Jan 29, 2017
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt addresses the 75th duPont-Columbia Awards. (Photo by Kevin Grant/GroundTruth)
Inequality

A call for courage in journalism at 75th duPont Awards

NEW YORK — Some of journalism’s living legends invoked the spirits of departed news greats like Edward R....

Jan 27, 2017
Massachusetts' new public records law went into effect January 1, 2017.
Rights

Massachusetts’ public records law still one of the worst, critics say

Despite a recent overhaul of its public records law, critics say Massachusetts is still one the worst states...

Jan 26, 2017
Democracy

Latinas at Women’s March on Washington send a message to Trump

They wore hand-painted cardboard butterfly wings on their backs as symbols of migration, with words like “peace,” “warrior”...

Jan 25, 2017
Anna Fierst, the great-granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt (center), holds up a sign that says, "Together We Stand." (Photo by Beth Murphy/GroundTruth)
Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt’s great-granddaughter walked in the Women’s March

Anna Fierst, 61, woke up early Saturday in Washington, D.C. with a fire in her chest – the...

Jan 24, 2017
Rights

Opinion: Staying in the struggle at Women’s March in Mississippi

By Pamela Berry-Johnson JACKSON, Mississippi – Just days prior to joining the historic Women’s March on Jackson, my...

Jan 22, 2017
An estimated 100,000 protestors attended the Women's March on London, a sister march of the Women's March on Washington, on Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo by Devi Lockwood/GroundTruth)
Europe

What some of the 100,000 London protesters had to say about Trump

By Devi Lockwood LONDON – A crowd estimated at 100,000 people took to the streets in London to...

Jan 22, 2017
Demonstrators take part in Rio's Women's March on January 21, 2017. (Photo by Catherine Osborn/GroundTruth)
Rights

At Women’s March in Rio, worries about Brazil’s growing right wing

RIO DE JANEIRO — A glitter-covered protester on stilts, in the style of Rio’s upcoming carnival parades, led...

Jan 21, 2017
Rights

Record turnout at Washington Women’s March kickstarts opposition

WASHINGTON — Overnight, the capital transformed from the lower energy of President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration to the...

Jan 21, 2017
A woman sheds a tear as the song, "America the Beautiful: Together We Stand" plays in the Boston Common during the Boston Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo by Alastair J. Pike/GroundTruth)
Rights

Photos: Tender moments and public ire at Women’s March in Boston

By Alastair Pike More than 100 years after American women mobilized for the right to vote, up to...

Jan 21, 2017
Thousands gather outside of the Michigan State Capitol Building for the Women's March on Lansing in Lansing, Mich., on Saturday, January 21, 2017. (Photo by Brittany Greeson/GroundTruth)
Rights

Thousands of Michiganders flock to Women’s March on Lansing

LANSING, Mich. — As the fog lifted over Michigan's capital this morning, thousands of people began pouring out of tour buses,...

Jan 21, 2017
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