Persisters
Petula DvorakHumans who push, persevere, pivot and persist...despite all the sh*t.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 84 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 32 hours ago |
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The Sex Pistols didn’t make the cut...
This was not a week for people who give up easily. From a woman who survived sex trafficking to the student journalists who blew up the story of the Cornell 7 thanks to sheer tenacity, persisters dominated. And I didn’t even get into the dr...
This influencer is the reason we celebrate Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is coming!
And the reason we get the day off, schools close and the entire nation sits down to bicker about politics and ignore the green beans is the persistence of a widow raising five kids on her own while writing poetry an...
Just give them the Pulitzer right now (seriously)
This is what a Pulitzer Prize is for:
Persistence
For two years, Cereese Qusba, 22, didn’t give up on the story she was chasing for The Cornell Daily Sun. The student journalist dug in because she knew the campus police report of a se...
The Washington That Wasn’t Built (and why)
Sometimes, it was a tough gig.
One of my beats at The Post included covering the commissions that deliberated for months, years even, about the way our nation’s capital and significant symbols should look, from curb cuts in Georgetown and...
She could’ve been Relisha
The thing about homelessness is that having a key in your pocket isn’t the key to ending all the hell that comes with it.
Mahogany Epps knows that. She’s got a house key on her ring. And it’s not over.
Being unhoused wasn’t simply about h...
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Last of the local columnists for The Washington Post (before they got rid of us), daughter of Czech immigrants, history curious, new empty nester, ADHD CEO of a house of Y chromosomes, married to a fellow Chaos Muppet, too profane for MSM
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