April 25, 2019 staff editorial in the CSUDH Bulletin, which the Associated Press callously failed to mention in yesterday’s announcement… The Associated Press, which heavily influences word usage at media outlets in this country and across the world, announced yesterday that, after years of contentious debate, it will now capitalize the B in Black if […]
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CSUDH Dreamers Celebrate Yesterday’s High Court Ruling
A look inside the Toro Dreamers Success Center, during a 2019 arts competition event co-hosted by External Relations and Congresswoman Diaz Barragán. Photo courtesy of Lisa Sueki By Brenda Fernanda Verano, News Editor Editor Note: The writer is an undocumented student. The approximately 750,000 undocumented immigrants across the country brought to the U.S. as children […]
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The Burden of Being Black
Thousands attended a Long Beach protest earlier this month. Photo By Destiny Jackson By Destiny Jackson “Being black is having a good day and then seeing another black person was killed for no reason. Then you have to think about/talk about that all day. Or don’t and numb yourself. It’s a constant emotional war.” – […]
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Different Neighborhoods Warrant Rubber Bullets or Traffic Control For Protesters
Protesters in Newport Beach chanted the names of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor as traffic drove by, honking in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Photo by Taylor Helmes By Taylor Helmes, Managing Editor If you’ve been paying any attention to the news lately, there’s a chance you saw a scene that looked like […]
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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 […]