Tag: media

Student newspapers fight for future despite threats

Across the country, student newsrooms are under growing pressure — facing censorship threats, funding cuts and institutional pushback. In the past two months, at least four student-run outlets have reported efforts by school administrations to restrict their operations, limit press access or sever long-standing partnerships. At Purdue University, The Exponent said the school informed staff…

‘Who’s going to run the place?’: Advocates worry about Shawnee Forest’s future amid waves of federal layoffs 

The Shawnee National Forest spans 289,000 acres across southern Illinois. Popular destinations like Garden of the Gods, Little Grand Canyon and Pomona Natural Bridge are some of the most frequented in the Shawnee.   But conservationists and forestry workers are concerned that the regular maintenance of the forest and its future health is in jeopardy after…

In Conversation: Sixty years of civil rights activism by the iconic Percy Green

Sixty-one years ago, Percy Green began a hunger strike in front of the office of then-St. Louis Treasurer John H. “Jack” Dwyer to demand the city remove tax money from Jefferson Bank, which had no Black employees. Green, who had already been branded a “habitual troublemaker” by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and secretly targeted for…