Special Series

special series

Roberto Marquez

Mexican artist Roberto Marquez. The flag he carries is 25 feet long and is missing its stars, which he says is a commentary on immigration policy in the United States. “It’s something similar to a flag, but it’s a work of art. If you notice, it doesn’t have any stars....

Blanca Mora

Blanca Mora is a Costa Rican journalist covering the inauguration for media back home. “Right now the eyes of the world [are on the] USA… whatever is happening here, we never saw it before. You can expect something like that in a third-world...

Karen Irwin

Karen Irwin, Protects the Black Lives Matter memorial fence at BLM Plaza, Washington, D.C. “As far as the administration, the future of the country – I think we’re so screwed. They’re walking in to an enormous mess. I don’t see how a change in the executive branch...

Smokey Sims

Smokey Sims, Protecting protestors at Black lives Matter plaza in Washington D.C. during the inauguration “I’m always an optimist and I’ve always got hope, and I hope that Joe Biden do us right this time, because before in the past he passed the criminal bill against...

Nadine Selier

???????: ???? ?????? ?? ???? ?????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ??? ???????. Nadine Seiler, Maryland resident at Black lives Matter plaza in Washington D.C. for the inauguration “I was not a Biden supporter, but once January 6th occurred… when he spoke on it, he...

Daniel Kingery

Daniel Kingery, Homeless resident in McPherson Square, Washington D.C. “If we remain silent to quote ‘controlling our government,’ and do not participate in actively controlling it and enforcing our votes, we are just going to continue falling and failing as a nation....

Giovanni Sedita

Giovanni Sedita, Biden supporter from Texas “We have a lot of Republicans in the area, we live in the rural area of Texas… we’ve had people come through our yard in their truck and do doughnuts on our Biden...

Paula Alvarez & Elliot Carter

Paula Alvarez & Elliot Carter Washington D.C. residents who live and work in the District. “Since 2001… people have gotten used to guards with machine guns outside the subway… we have rebuilt this entire city around the notion of foreign extremists coming here and...

Joel Selanikio

Long-time DC residents Joel Selanikio, his wife Miaochun, and son Kai live about one mile from the White House. “With the Capital riot,  people felt like these are folks who are trying… to overthrow the government… I think I’ll sleep OK tonight,  but at...

Haruyo Miyamoto

Correspondent covering the inauguration in Washington for Tokyo Broadcasting System News in Japan. “[Trump is] very popular among some Japanese people… Still today, there are some Japanese people who think that President-elect Biden wasn’t elected fair and...