Lanre Akomolafe, a local Tucson entertainment filmer and photographer, sees it now more than ever. “I was at Mad Decent Block Party, a music festival in Phoenix, Arizona, last year and a man fell to the ground and started seizing right in front of me,” says Akomolafe. Akomolafe brought medical personnel to help. Later, Akomolafe…
PHOENIX — Protesters dressed as handmaids shouted “Shame!” at members of the House Judiciary and Public Safety Committee after a 6-3 vote in favor of an abortion reporting bill. The red dresses and white bonnets of the handmaids are from Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which portrays a dystopian future where women are property…
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey started this week by weighing in on the national gun debate with a press conference that laid out his goals for looking at background checks. In a somewhat contradictory set of statements, Ducey claimed that the law shouldn’t prevent a grandpa from passing down a shotgun to a grandson, but…
PHOENIX — The Senate Government Committee voted 6-1 Wednesday in favor of establishing a memorial on the Arizona Governmental Mall for a man who helped to plan and carry out the mass murder of over 120 people. According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, John D. Lee was an LDS major in…
The debate of reincorporating Mexican American Studies to the Tucson Unified School District has been silenced, as of now, because culturally relevant courses has filled the void of ethnic studies within the curriculum. MAS classes were the original ethnic studies in TUSD, but the state banned it in December of 2010. Because of this ban,…
