Connor Guy is a Spring 2012 Nation intern. He recently taught 8th grade English and Journalism in Las Vegas, Nevada through the Teach For America program, after graduating from Whitman College with a BA in English.
Mexican poet and activist Javier Sicilia lost his son to a drug cartel. Now he’s part of a movement to end the drug wars.
A thousand demonstrators gathered in Union Square to call for the prosecution of George Zimmerman, Martin’s killer. More protests are planned across the country.
Washington has become the seventh state to allow same-sex couples to wed. But the National Organization for Marriage will fight the new law.