by Starlette Thomas | May 15, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
It’s been one year since the mass shooting at Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 dead and three wounded. Fueled by that toxic combination of hate and ignorance, I wonder what we, as a society, are missing. I do know who we have missed out on. Ten...
by John D. Pierce | May 9, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature, Opinion
Before entering the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, a group of white nationalist Proud Boys knelt to seek divine support. “We pray you provide all of us with courage and strength to both represent you and to represent our culture as well,” voiced the one...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Apr 19, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Feature, Opinion
“They do not seem to have a fundamental sense of right,” said New England abolitionist Frederick Olmstead while visiting the state of Tennessee in the 1850s. He was speaking of white slaveowners who imprisoned people of color in a lifetime of forced slave labor,...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Mar 22, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, 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...
