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Since February, Senegalese authorities have initiated a crackdown against the LGBTQ community, reportedly arresting hundreds across the country.

The post As Senegal Cracks Down on LGBTQ Rights, Activists Seek Help From Abroad appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

A year after Better Bus, reviews are mixed.

Capturing tenant organizing, statehood activism, and rapid gentrification taught her that change comes for those who keep fighting.

As the city faces a Black maternal health crisis, health advocates are concerned about cuts at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

There are so many things you may not even realize.

Squeeze every last drop out of the summer with a kayaking cleanup, a beginner fishing event, and more opportunities to learn while connecting with your neighbors.

At just 16 years old, I made a drastic decision that derailed my life. But I'm the beneficiary of a law that allowed me to redefine myself.

Plan a rent party, learn how to more strategically pay your taxes, and more.

Residents and tourists of the nation’s capital saw the city transformed into a circus for more than a month – a site for media spectacles and thinly-veiled celebrations of the president.

The post The District of Calamity: Freedom 250 and the Semiquincentennial in Washington appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

The District of Columbia Archives has released its largest digital collection of historic photos

This midsummer weekend features all the charm of a D.C July. Unique opportunities to celebrate culture and build community — worth it, no matter the humidity.

George Kevin Jordan is our Lead Community Connector.

Since 2022, the German collective Rosa Rolling Safespace has been providing a mobile safe space for women living in refugee camps around Athens. Their work shows that gender-based violence in these settings is not incidental but structural, a direct product of European and Greek migration policies.

The post Inside Greece’s Refugee Camps, Gender-Based Violence Is Built Into the System  appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

Dream of a better D.C., eat a hot dog for abortion, and more ways to get involved.

The fight for nightlife goes on as Boycott Room, a group of DJs, organizers and activists that have been calling for a coordinated boycott of the event series and video platform Boiler Room took another stand with protests and a counter-rave on July 10 and…

The post NYC Activists Maintain Boycott Against ‘Blood Money Rave’ Boiler Room appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

What started as an environmental protest in Albania related to Trump's son-in-law's business ventures became something bigger — addressing long-standing corruption, the right to information and transparency and who gets to decide Albania's future. The unrest has reached the diaspora.

The post In Athens, Albania’s Diaspora Watches a Revolt at Home, and Finds Its Own Voice appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges against Trump's political opponents.

The post Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 appeared first on UNICORN RIOT.

Tenant organizers fought to exempt renovated buildings from the sweeping housing law, but advocates say that isn’t working in practice.

Debates about the city’s new graduation requirements only skim the surface of our students’ problems with college- and workforce-readiness, writes a member of the D.C. State Board of Education.

Dive into the dog days of summer with a Japanese star festival celebration, jazz and barbecue, or a fairy-tale circus show.