by Jennifer Allmon | Jan 5, 2023 | Opinion
Human trafficking is big business. The United Nation’s International Labor Organization estimates that human trafficking generates $150.2 billion in profit annually. This modern-day slavery happens in many ways, sometimes hidden in plain sight. People are forced into...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 5, 2023 | Opinion
Imagine applying for admission to your ideal university or for that perfect job, only to be turned away because someone lacking your work ethic, skills or intelligence is given your spot because of their skin pigmentation. An injustice exists whenever a person, based...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 4, 2023 | Opinion
We put a good man in the ground last week, or at least, the shell he last inhabited. It wasn’t what it used to be, before his 94 years took their toll. He wasn’t the only good man I knew, but the only one I called Daddy, even when he no longer knew what to call me, or...
by Pam Strickland | Jan 4, 2023 | Opinion
Sex trafficking operates on a market system. Where there is demand for commercial sex, traffickers capitalize on the opportunity to make an astronomical profit and supply that demand with human bodies for consumption. To a trafficker, commodification of a person is...
by Amy Butler | Jan 4, 2023 | Opinion
I’m sick of hearing about New Year’s resolutions, so as I begin 2023, I hereby refuse to make any. I’d also appreciate it if Noom would stop sending me emails. I have no 2023 plans to darken the door of a gym. I will make no promises to run anywhere unless someone is...
by Starlette Thomas | Jan 3, 2023 | Opinion
Don’t make another New Year’s resolution. Instead, resolve to build a new world. “Raise your words, not your voice,” Rumi said. It will be otherworldly words that will take us higher and well above the fray. There are a lot of words to choose from. I would implore you...
