WASHINGTON, D.C. — I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church. When I lived at home before college, my family and I went to church every Sunday. I got ashes on my forehead every Ash Wednesday. When I was accepted into Georgetown University, my delighted grandmother called it Catholic Harvard. I knew I was Catholic, …
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NEW YORK — At the beginning of my sophomore year at the University of Michigan, I wrote a column for The Michigan Daily, UM’s student newspaper, about the overwhelming lack of diversity in classical music and the question of separating artists from their artwork. I study classical music composition; at the time, I was a …
Allison Donahue had “just laughed it off” when sources made sexist comments about her, she told the Investigative Reporting Workshop. But the 22-year-old rookie reporter from Michigan drew the line in January when Michigan state Sen. Peter Lucio told her in front of a group of high school boys that they “could have a lot …
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