RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) The Women s March on Raleigh drew thousands of people to downtown Raleigh every year, since former President Donald s Trump inauguration.
The march is going virtual during the pandemic, with videos and pictures posted on Facebook and Instagram all day long.
Organizer Jillian Riley said this is the last Women s March on Raleigh. It was a movement that was meant to, I think, bookmark Trump s presidency, and now it s really time for folks in the community to continue to get involved locally, Riley said. And so we want to just go ahead and end this with one quick celebration but also our theme is onward together, so we re continuing on the work, doing the work at the local level.
The best journalism of 2020: Covering the pandemic
A year has passed since the novel coronavirus first emerged. Even with mass inoculation efforts underway, it continues to rage on, with little sign of abating.
Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our abilities to comprehend and respond to it. Below, CJR has compiled some of the year’s most illuminating, hard-hitting, and enduring coverage of the pandemic.
From the early days of the outbreak, McNeil Jr.’s prescient stories for
The New York Times demystified and narrativized a virus that, to this day, continues to evade grasp. In a time of frenetic news cycles, such clear and careful writing served as a much-needed antidote to protracted uncertainty. (McNeil, Jr.’s recent story, about the toll covid-19 may yet take even as vaccinations and an administration change draw near, is another sobering account of what lies ahead of us