Protester’s sign in the 2018 March for Our Lives rally in Kansas City. Photo: Annie Bolin, Unsplash By Iracema Navarro, Politics Editor The coronavirus has cast a shadow over voting in the 2020 elections, including fears of lower voter turn-out due to possible concerns over catching the virus at the polls, and a roiling controversy […]
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Stop the Inaction: Get Rid of Anti-Blackness in the Asian American Community and Stand Up
Photo: Poster, circa 1970 By Jasmine Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief One of the three officers who stood silently the night of May 25 in Minneapolis as another officer pressed his knee to the neck of George Floyd for nearly nine minutes, was Tou Thao. Thao is Hmong, a Southeast Asian ethnic group that resides in Vietnam and […]
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The 2020 Presidential Race: As it Stands
By Brian Hinchion, Staff Reporter And then there was one. Bernie Sanders announced he would be suspending his presidential campaign in a live stream posted on his twitter account on April 8, leaving former Vice President Joe Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee in this 2020 general election in November. Just five days later on […]
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Protect Immigrants and Eradicate Nationalist Supremacy
Graphic by Andrea Mendez. By Brenda Verano, Staff Reporter Why exactly should immigration matter to an American nationalist? Because it should. It’s that simple. In my private utopia, I would end this piece on that, but of course, for the sake of immigration advocacy I will continue. And, no, white people who are not white […]
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Capitalism: The Real American Pandemic
“The people need to flowers not corporations.” Photo by Dignidad Rebelde. By Brenda Verano, Staff Reporter Since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 infection in the United States, was announced Jan. 20, we have seen the true face of the American government, and no, I’m not talking about democracy. I’m talking about capitalism. We have […]