This story has been corrected to reflect the accurate name of Des Moines Refugee Support When the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021, many Afghans who either worked for the U.S. or Afghan government fled Afghanistan to take refuge in the U.S. Around 1,000 Afghan nationals resettled in Iowa. These individuals were given two years […]
On Wednesday, Feb. 1, Drake hosted a panel to discuss the Black Panther Party’s Des Moines chapter and its lasting impact. The panel included state Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad, a former lieutenant in the Des Moines chapter, who was able to tell a first-person account of some of the chapter’s history. Other panelists included Carmen Lampe […]
There is a war that has featured attacks on hospitals, war crimes, the torture of civilians and rape as a weapon of war. This war shares similarities to the invasion of Ukraine but has been far deadlier. That’s how Elizebeth Shackelford, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs, began a lecture to […]