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According to the Institue for Self-Reliance, a community located on the north side of Tulsa, Oklahoma is looking to push dollar stores (Dollar General, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar) out of their community. At present, the stores have over 50 locations in North Tulsa alone, and while this predominantly Black portion of Tulsa goes on […]

by Josh Rivers Travis Alabanza is an electrifying talent, but that’s obvious. One need only glance in their direction to see pulsing from them the potential and possibility of art manifesting in its purest, most acute form. To sit in their glow is to be enthralled, enchanted, mesmerised. Travis is a performance artist, poet and […]

Garrett Robinson, a senior running back on the Brown University football team, recently helped to teach a training session for the incoming freshman members of the team. But this was no ordinary football training. It was a training about how not to replicate the aggression of football off the field, the likes of which have […]

by Andrew Keahey This essay contains some spoilers for The First Purge. Catharsis is important. As marginalized people, every day that we’re alive and drawing breath in this country, we are bombarded with things that infuriate and sadden us. The news not only traumatizes us by showing us the seemingly incessant violence perpetrated against us, […]

According to a report from CNN, the American Embassy in Haiti is urging citizens to stay inside and away from the demonstrations taking place in Port-Au-Prince and another city on the northern coast of Haiti. Jack Guy Lafontant, Haiti’s Prime Minister, called for a stop to both the price increases and the unrest on Saturday. […]

The Supreme Court upheld Ohio’s efforts to engage in voter suppression in a 5-4 vote, according to The New York Times. The ruling effectively means that if voters miss a few elections and fail to respond to a notice from election officials, they can be kicked off the voting rolls in the state. Republicans have […]

by Andrew Keahey The Purge series is an interesting phenomenon; a horror franchise with heavy commentary on American class politics, privilege, and security. Sure, it absolutely helps to fulfill the public’s desire for stylized hyper-violence, a craving once consistently nurtured by the Saw franchise, but it also endeavors to do much more with the stories […]

Match Day, which is when medical students find out where they’ll be conducting their residency, is always a special occasion. For Nancy Abu-Bonsrah, it was even more so as she became the first Black woman neurosurgeon at John Hopkins. 

The Fraternal Order of Police is the largest police union in the United States. As a result, when its president, Chuck Canterbury, writes an open letter to one of the biggest retailers in the world, it’s going to have results. Knowing this, Canterbury wrote a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, urging him to remove any trace […]

Besides claiming that he’ll build a massive wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and banning all Muslims, one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises was a complete overhaul of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. But, following a surge in the program’s enrollment after the election, Trump has backed off of his position. 

According to The Washington Post, private prison stocks have soared after the election of Donald Trump on Tuesday. Why are private prisons becoming more lucrative post Trump? Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail, as a “law and order candidate” promising to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, has spurred renewed interest in private prisons as potential […]

The St. Paul Minnesota Police Department has placed an officer on leave while it looks into claims that he has put on Facebook telling drivers to run over protestors who advocated against the police killings of two black men in 2015.