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TGIF, Illinois. A year ago, our lead headline said it all:
GOV. J.B. PRITZKER applauded President
Joe Biden’s order Thursday that states make Covid-19 vaccines available to all American adults by May 1.
Students, including Tafari Robertson (center), gather around the Fighting Stallions during the March on Clegg, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, on the Quad. Star file photo
Editorâs Note: For the remainder of the school year, The University Star will take on âThe 11% Projectâ, an examination of Black students at Texas State through History, Election, Hometowns, Activism, Creatives and 10 years from now.
It took Tafari Robertson two years post-graduation to process the trauma he endured as a student at Texas State.
âIn the year [following] everything that happened on campus.I had graduated, but I was still in San Marcos,â Robertson says. âThat was just, like, a really rough year for me because it was leaving the activist space. You know, it s hard to look back on and feel like you really did everything you could have.â
WASHINGTON — Congress has tried for decades to enact comprehensive immigration legislation without success, so starting next week the House will try a different strategy: passing a pair of more
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In the vacuum left behind by Donald Trump, the ringleaders of the right-wing media ecosystem are finding new and old ways to keep stoking white hysteria.
They ve already found one winner: reprising the toxic, racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric that brought Trump to power in the first place, but which had ebbed as Trump turned to other grievances instead.
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Cue Tucker Carlson, stoking racialized fear the other night on Fox News, charging that under Joe Biden s immigration policies an MS-13 member arrested for drug dealing with previous convictions for say, theft, extortion, grand larceny could be released maybe into your neighborhood.