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Article: The Case Against Reparations - This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Reparations! (Middle Passage Press) that examines the many issues in the slavery reparations debate. Former President Trump called the notion of reparations for slavery unusual and interesting.

Article: The Case Against Reparations - This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Reparations! (Middle Passage Press) that examines the many issues in the slavery reparations debate. Former President Trump called the notion of reparations for slavery unusual and interesting.

Article: Why Mass Shootings Never End

Article: Why Mass Shootings Never End

Article: Critical Race Theory Yet another Strawman Issue - An unnamed, unidentified Black man at the raucous Temecula School Board mid-March meeting was the latest to feel the wrath of the countless number of livid, dyed in the wool opponents of anything that smacks of teaching critical race theory in the schools.

Four Chicanx poets and authors from San Diego and Los Angeles from FlowerSong Press are reading this Saturday, May 28 from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., at Barnes & Noble Encinitas (Town Center, 1040 N El Camino Real Drive, Encinitas, CA 92024).Collectively, these poets and writers have performed their poetry around the world, sold thousands of copies of their books, had their work published in dozens of literary journals and newspapers, performed at hundreds of colleges and universities, have been taugh...

Stephanie D. Wells previously worked as director of development for the Michelson Found Animals Foundation.

Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK’s news team in January 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats.

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Derek Chauvin *Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin got his day in court. He was able to put on a plausible defense that George’s Floyd’s death did not come at his hands (or knee) but because of Floyd’s prior severe medical conditions. A recent USA Today/Ipsos poll found that a lot of people have had second thoughts about what happened in that deadly encounter. That maybe it was just a case of a cop doing his job. Despite that, Chauvin may well be convicted of one ...