A grocery store, restaurant and apartments will be built at University Avenue and 22nd Street. The three-story development will include both a locally owned grocery store and restaurant on the ground floor, with 24 apartment units above. The lot was previously occupied by a Kum & Go gas station that closed following the redevelopment of […]
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 […]