Why they marched: The Knox Student

I attended the Women's March on Washington with 52 other Knox students in January 2017. This is the article my managing editor Nadia Spock and I wrote together. Winner of Second Place News Story at the Illinois Collegiate Press Association. 

Sophomore Ananda Badili’s father marched in the Million Man March in Washington, D.C. 22 years ago. This past weekend, she marched in the Women’s March in D.C. with an estimated 500,000 people.

“It’s like I’m following in his footsteps or something,” she said on the bus, just one day before the march. “I think it’ll be really inspirational and something I can tell my kids about.”

Students protest Trump presidency: The Knox Student

Protests emerged on the Knox campus less than 12 hours after the election. My co-editor and I raced to cover it.

Opening the floor to a group of over 100 gathered students, Koroye stood on a table on the Gizmo patio, dressed in all black.

“Be angry. Let it drive you. Let it move you,” Koroye said.

The rally started with the microphone being open to all students, who took turns speaking to their fears, hopes, angers and advice for one another. Other students and faculty gathered around the patio, spilling out onto the steps. They cheered, snapped, clapped and cried together.

Cottage CEO: Local births not enough to support 2 obstetrics departments: Galesburg Register-Mail

GALESBURG — Two full-time and one part-time employee of the Cottage Women’s Health Clinic will lose their jobs as a result of the suspension of labor and delivery services, says Eileen Inness, direct of public relations.