When it comes to crises, the African American community, like other communities, can usually count…
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Spreading the culture of fear
Regardless of political ideology or level of sophistication, the terrorist apparatus has succeeded in spawning…
What would King think?
African Americans have been the most rapidly advancing oppressed people in the history of the…
Those who wouldnt go
One spring day, some 40 years after the turmoil of the Vietnam Era had died…
The new Jordan High
David Starr Jordan High School sits smack within one of America’s best known ghettos–Watts. In…
Gun culture in South L.A.
View Park resident and retired Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) police officer David Anthony…
The colors of immigration reform
After years of non-action and adverse action from differing political groups, persuasions and governmental entities,…
What went wrong?
Autopsy: an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or…
Out of (or into?) Africa
“In the 19th century, Europe’s hunger for slaves devastated West Africa. Two hundred years later,…
The mysteries of Black writers
The detective is arguably as much a cultural icon as the cowboy in the pantheon…