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Residents of Mexico City, Mexico ran to the streets in panic as the strongest earthquake to hit the country in a century woke them late Thursday night. Officials state it registered at an 8.2 on the Richter scale and was even stronger than the tremor that resulted in 10,000 deaths in 1985. 

It’s still a harsh reality that many students get their best meal of the entire day when they go to school. Given this, public school systems have been working to ensure that more students are able to get free lunches. New York may have just outdone them all.

Chance the Rapper had already done more than most have for Chicago Public Schools when he donated $1 million for the education system that raised him—but he was far from done.

Harvey made landfall on Friday in the form of a category 4 hurricane. However, the days following it were just as chaotic as tropical storms have resulted in flooding following as much as 50 inches of rainfall in certain areas. 

By Stephon Robert I knew I was dead. I looked up to a white ceiling and attempted to move my head around. Yeah, I was definitely dead. It was too peaceful. True, this wasn’t really how I imagined the afterlife to be, but whatever. At least I was comfortable and the room smelled pretty good. […]

The police force in Evanston, IL. has earned a questionable reputation after arresting a PhD student for “breaking into” his own car last year. They’re off to a rocky start if they’re looking to improve that image, however, after arresting a 12-year-old who was riding on the back of a bike that ran a red light.

Out of the 1,700 statues on public land in Philadelphia, absolutely none depict Black individuals. All of the statues in the city that do are found on private properties. This will no longer be the case come September when a statue of Octavius Catto will be unveiled. 

Baltimore politicians learned from the mistakes of other cities by not only unanimously voting to remove Confederate statues from the city, but by agreeing to do it expeditiously. 

The “Alt-right” movement has been at the top of the news cycle following this past weekend’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. One would think that means they’d take a step back and wait for the heat to die down some. NOPE. Instead, these white supremacist groups are looking to expand and sponsor rallies […]

By Law Ware It should have worked. In theory, a film about a city on edge that erupts into violence because of police brutality should inspire conversations and think pieces about how little things have changed in the 50 years since the incident being represented. We could be discussing how the film shows the historical […]

Many of the Trump administration’s values directly contradict those of the country’s largest cities. While Trump is strongly against the immigration of undocumented citizens, cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and even Atlanta have taken on the approach of being “welcoming” to them. This separation has now led to legal action. Chicago has become the […]

The city of Baltimore is still trying to sort out what to do after a video showed an officer planting drugs for an arrest. Before they can get to that, they need to figure out what to do about another video of a cop doing the exact same thing to someone else.