Brittany Peterson

Dec 18, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Noreen Nasir |Brittany Peterson

NEW YORK — For Djaniele Taylor, attending WNBA games was the perfect way to rediscover a sense of community coming out of the long slog of pandemic-era lockdowns. The 38-year-old Evanston, Illinois, resident has regularly attended Chicago Sky games for the last three seasons, after she watched the team win its first championship in 2021. As a queer Black fan, she felt the games were a supportive and safe sporting environment.

Oct 31, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Dorany Pineda |Brittany Peterson

As a mother of two, Robin Funsten knows it’s impossible to bathe her 2-year-old without getting water in the toddler’s mouth. But she’s never had to worry about that until recently. A month after deadly Hurricane Helene devastated the U.S. Southeast, Funsten and more than 100,000 residents on city water in western North Carolina remain on an indefinite boil water notice as workers clear sediment from reservoirs and run water quality tests.

Oct 17, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Brittany Peterson

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — It takes water to flush a toilet and tens of thousands of North Carolinians have been without it since Hurricane Helene ripped through the state three weeks ago. When Lark Frazier went around asking her Asheville neighbors how they were doing as far as water to flush, several burst into tears over the stress of where to go to the bathroom and what to do with the waste. Some told her they were eating less to avoid going.

Sep 27, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Tammy Webber |Brittany Peterson |Camille Fassett

BELLVUE, Colo. — Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuring how much each had grown in seven months. “That’s two to three inches of growth on the spruce,” said Stevens-Rumann, interim director at the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.

Sep 25, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Peter Prengaman |Brittany Peterson

NEW YORK — Dressed in a sequin-laced, sleeveless top and puffy pink skirt, drag queen Pattie Gonia strides around the stage in white high-heeled boots that come up to the knees, telling the crowd that nature must be a woman. “She is trying to kill us in the most passive-aggressive way possible,” joked Gonia, who has a neatly trimmed mustache, long black eyelashes and a wig of long and flowing red hair. “It’s not some sort of immediate fire or flood or a cool explosion.