View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
As information and truth are forced through the filters of deception, manipulation, and bias, it has become increasingly difficult to know if what we read is fake or real.
On May 19, we will honor the 99th birthday of Malcolm X also known as El-Hajj Malik Shabazz. The legacy he left when he was struck…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
A university’s role is to teach students how to think critically and courageously.
To say that the following academic year has been riveting for higher education is an understatement. When Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The exodus North has become the exodus to the South, where the weather and the grits are better.
The South is home for the majority of Black people in this country. There was a time during the days of Jim Crow segregation when millions…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black Lives Matter started with a few sisters and a social media hashtag, and the rest is history.
This is the year to plan to join something and get involved. With inflation, student loans, paying the bills, climate change, police violence and so many…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
To protect one’s home, does one really need an assault rifle that fires 20-30 rounds at 800 rounds per minute?
Ethan Crumbley was convicted last year and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. His parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, were convicted in separate trials…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Roughly half of these states are former confederate states with large Black populations, a long record of treating people poorly and a history of not regarding Black people as human beings.
Once again, the Republican Party is showing that they really don’t care about children. For all their talk about family values — empty and self-righteous talk…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The world has seen how he can rally his zealots to do the unthinkable, so what else will they do?
I’m your warrior, I’m your justice I’m your MAGA in the alley Been betrayed, time to get laid Break some laws, go get paid You know…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Open and avowed white supremacists operate in the government, engaging in whites-only policies based on a false racist theory of white genocide, with an immigration policy of ethnic cleansing, separation of migrant families and imprisonment of 15,000 children - all designed to keep whites in the majority.
This month marks the 95th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr the iconic American civil rights and human rights leader who forced America to live up…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
Just because it isn’t on the front page of the New York Times doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
Many of us go through the useless ritual of making New Year’s resolutions and proclaiming “out with the old.” Maybe that works for your eating habits…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
there is a big difference between giving someone a jacket and giving them a book, especially if the book is a gift for a young person.
They don’t call it “Black Friday” because they love Black people; they call it Black Friday because many businesses are pushed into the black (from the…
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