University of Maryland Facilities Management Lawsuit

This story is an in-depth feature on two electricians — DuRay Jones and Michael Bell — who are suing UMD for racial discrimination. They filed their lawsuit in federal court last summer, but besides an initial story with the basic facts from the court documents, no one has really reported on what drove them to file or what the process has been like for them. The project is both a close look at their case and a narrative about how the stress of it has affected their home lives and mental health.

Overview

Getting Started
Development
Deployment
Built With
Issues

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

To work on this project, you'll need to have Node and Git installed. If you don't already, you can download Node here and Git here.

Installing

Follow the steps below to get your development enviroment set up.

1. Pull the repo. Open the terminal and and run the following:

   git clone https://github.com/unicornware/umdfacilitieslawsuit.git
   

2. After cloning the repo, open the project. In the project directory, run the following command:

   npm install
   

   in the terminal. This will install the necessary dependencies for the project. A list of those dependencies can be found in package.json.

Development

Open a new terminal tab and run npm run dev. This will launch the project on your local machine, compile your sass files, and minify your css files.

Deployment

Attention: This section is under construction

Built With

• ReactJS - JavaScript Library
• Sass - CSS Preprocessor
• Google Analytics for React Router

Issues

Designed and developed by Lexus Drumgold; please get in contact with Lex if you have any comments or concerns.