by Mitch Randall | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
“Students,” the teacher begins, “please welcome our newest addition to class.” The young man sheepishly scans his new classmates, thinking, “How will they respond to me? What will their parents say when they find out?” The teacher continues, “Class, our new student’s...
by Alyssa Aldape | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
The term and framework “reproductive justice” turned 30 this year. Not to be confused or used interchangeably with “reproductive rights,” the framework of reproductive justice invites us to go deeper into dignity. It came to be in the summer of 1994 when a group of...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I remember my first reaction to a mass killing. It was the summer of 1984. I was a young man in my twenties, sitting in my La-Z-Boy reading the Miami Herald. This was before mass shootings were frequent occurrences, so I was not yet desensitized. A gunman strolled...
by Starlette Thomas | Sep 18, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
A.J. Laguerre, 19, Jerald Gallion, 29, and Angela Michelle Carr, 52, were shot and killed on a Saturday afternoon at a Dollar General store in New Town, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter was “free, white and...
by Michael Chancellor | May 30, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
My wife, Anna, graduated from Santa Fe High School in 1969. At the time, the community was called Alta Loma, Texas, but now is Santa Fe City. Five years ago, on Thursday, May 19, 2018, a shooter killed 10 people and injured 13 at Santa Fe High School. Five years...
