Eleanor Holmes Norton

The DC Council voted unanimously on June 1 to call on the federal government to cancel all student loan debt and “begin the transition to education as a public good.” The council’s resolution comes as a handful of cities like Boston,…

So, there I was watching CNN, experiencing the news loop that can be mind-numbing, invigorating or depressing — sometimes all three simultaneously. What’s a news junkie to do when the DC Council is on recess? Watching the local government…

Years before becoming her hometown’s representative in Congress in 1991, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton brought the expertise she had gained from her work in civil rights and employment law to the classroom as a professor at Georgetown…