Iowa polling places are closing due to COVID-19. It could tip races in the swing state.
The New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo. The Senior High School in Fort Dodge. The Masonic Temple in Council Bluffs. Iowa voters won’t be able to cast their ballot at those locations this Election Day, or at many of the state’s other usual polling places. Closures and consolidations have rippled across Iowa due to the […]
Analysis: New and Age-Old Voter Suppression Tactics at the Heart of the 2020 Power Struggle
“You will not replace us!” The words chanted in 2017 by tiki torch-wielding white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, get right to the heart of what voter disenfranchisement tactics are all about in the 2020 election. Non-Hispanic white people are a shrinking percentage of the U.S. population and won’t be a majority within a few decades. They’ve held on […]
Revisiting ‘Objectivity’ in Journalism — Nov 5
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser will speak to students about objectivity in journalism. She has worked with independent news outlets for over two decades, including from 2011 to 2018, when she served as Executive Director of The Media Consortium, an association of 80 news organizations. Jo Ellen now runs JGKSF Consulting (jgksf.com), where she helps mission-centric […]