"To think that we can understand Islam through current headlines and the conflicting opinions of political pundits is sheer illusion. But the misrepresentations embedded in many scholarly tomes from prestigious…
When West Milwaukee police killed Adam Trammell, a Black resident of the city, he was unarmed and alone in his locked apartment, just taking a shower. The police came…
"The health of local waterways -- these days -- cannot be separated from the health of international rivers." -- Richard Martin Oxman In a local college publication, a well-meaning and…
"The billion dead is the least of what would happen with the Nuclear Winter referenced by Chomsky and Ellsberg in Arizona, and the most horrid scenario imaginable is becoming increasingly…
"...the power of Tolkien lies in the way that he succeeds, through myth, in making the unseen hand of providence felt by the reader. In his mythical creations, or sub-creations as…
"One cannot study the history taught in schools and learn about Black History at the same time." -- Lorraine Hansberry During the formative years of my main mentor,…
"O bailan todos o no baile nadie." -- the Tupamaros The Universe is a poem without foreign words. My loved ones laugh at me when they hear I've been listening to…
There are sixteen teens studying History, Journalism and Creative Writing at Flannery O'Connor Academy at present, and the other day we were all engaged in addressing serious issues related…
And if we don't fight if we don't resist if we don't organize and unify and get the power to control our own lives Then we will wear the exaggerated…
"I always thought school was a form of torture." -- Valleria Ruselli "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." -- Audre Lorde "Parents need to encourage their children to provide their…
"Two weeks after Kristallnacht, Gary Cooper made a publicity trip to Berlin promoting Paramount's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, one of Hitler's favorite movies. No major newspaper in the…
"In 2016 we allowed 15,479 Syrian refugees into the U.S., in 2017 we reduced that to 3,024, and this year we've only permitted 11 to enter. We care a lot…
"More than one in ten Syrians have been killed or wounded since 2011 in the Syrian Civil War, but although the West is responsible for much of that toll, there…
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