We are truly living in a historic era. Donald Trump has won the presidency of The United States of America and many are finally seeing this country for what it has always been: a white man’s empire. In the last couple of nights, multitudes of of people have congregated for peaceful protests in all major cities of […]
Read more "Power of Protest"It seems like every other week there is some high-profile case of American police killing civilians, in particular, African American males. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this week is no different. A white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina has been charged with murder after shooting and killing an […]
Read more "South Carolina Police Officer Faces Murder Charges in the Killing of an African American Male"One warm July afternoon, 43-year-old Eric Garner was standing outside a beauty supply store in Staten Island, New York. Two plainclothes police officers soon approached Garner and began talking to him. According to the Garner’s friend Ramsey Orta, who recorded and witnessed the entire dilemma, Garner had just broken up a fight minutes prior to the officers […]
Read more "No Indictment for NYC Police Officer in the Death of Eric Garner"In the days leading up to Monday’s decision, Ferguson was beginning to look more and more like a war zone rather than an American suburb. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, in apparent preparation for the announcement, took preemptive action by deploying the Missouri National Guard to Ferguson. He also declared a state of emergency a week before the decision was […]
Read more "The Burning South"The kidnapping and murder of the 43 students marks a dark chapter in modern Mexican history; one can only hope that this tragedy brings about change and reform, rather than fade away from the minds of the Mexican people and the world at large.
Read more "¡Vivos Se Los Llevaron, Vivos Los Queremos!"August 19th would have been a very important day in the life of 18-year-old Michael Brown. That’s the day he would have started classes at Vatterott Technical College. He was excited to be going to school; he told his friends he was relieved he was going to get an education rather than end up on […]
Read more "No Justice, No Peace"Spontaneous protests erupted in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev the night of November 21st after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych decided to reject a free trade deal with the European Union that would have brought the Ukraine one step closer to European integration. The rejection of the free trade deal coupled with crippling unemployment and government corruption that […]
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