Adam Mahoney – Medium

Published in Momentum

·Nov 3, 2020

Gen Z Punches Above Its Weight Class in the 2020 Election

Five first-time voters tell us the role casting a ballot plays in crafting the world they want to see — If you’ve spent five minutes online or had at least one socially distanced conversation this year, two things became evident: This election is the most important in most people’s lifetimes, and the country hasn’t been this divided in decades. But for young people whose political consciousness only began gaining traction…

Voting

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Gen Z Punches Above Its Weight Class in the 2020 Election

Voting

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Oct 12, 2020

We have failed in our Pandemic Response, but America Failed us First.

The US population makes up only 4.4 percent of the world’s population, but 21 percent of all Covid-19 cases. But that shouldn’t be a surprise to us, no matter the false ideals of American Exceptionalism that have been forcefully driven down our throats. — The United States has had the worst response to the coronavirus pandemic in the entire world. Last Friday, the world saw its most positive reported Covid cases of all time — at least 350,000. Fifty-nine thousand of them came from the US or nearly 17 percent. The US population makes…

Politics

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We have failed in our Pandemic Response, but America Failed us First.

Politics

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Published in LEVEL

·Oct 7, 2020

My Hair Shows Me Anti-Blackness Exists Everywhere

My Blackness put me in a position to been seen as inhuman — and my Americanness forced me to accept it — I last got my hair cut in March 2018, one and a half years before I first began my four-month stay in Vietnam. My hair is coarse and nappy. …

Travel

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Travel

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Published in LEVEL

·Sep 21, 2020

I’m a 20-Year-Old Black Kid Who Covered the Kenosha Uprisings. Here’s What I Learned.

If not me, then who? A 40-year-old White man? — When the video of Jacob Blake getting shot seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, reached my timeline, I did what I usually do when Black trauma becomes a matter of mass consumption. I got angry. I shared a Twitter post and an Instagram story, then deleted both. What…

Politics

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I’m a 20-Year-Old Black Kid Who Covered the Kenosha Uprisings. Here’s What I Learned.

Politics

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