by Bruce T. Gourley | Mar 22, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
“The devil went down to Georgia,” the Charlie Daniels Band sang, “lookin’ for a soul to steal.” There he dueled with a fiddle player named Johnny, who sent the evil one packing back to whence he had come. South of the Georgia border one weekend early last year in...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 2, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
There have been seventy-seven mass shootings in the U.S. in the first 45 days of 2023. Collectively, 109 were killed and 273 were wounded while sitting in a university classroom, going to high school, eating at fast-food restaurants, attending a concert, dancing at a...
by Natalie Ortiz-Lovince | Aug 3, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Disbelief. Anger. Grief. These are the emotions that have been plaguing me since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. In the wake of yet another brutal and numbing round of mass shootings and still no actions made to regulate gun control. In the wake...
by Emelda De Coteau | Aug 1, 2022 | Opinion
Black August is an annual observation that honors the lives of incarcerated Black liberation leaders. Leaders of this movement include George Jackson, a prominent writer and intellectual, alongside his brother Jonathan P. Jackson and others who rebelled against the...
by Starlette Thomas | May 31, 2022 | Opinion
Where’s my mother supposed to go grocery shopping now? The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that took 10 souls and permanently injured three others continues to take away from this predominately African American community. Now, she must change her schedule, drive...
