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OPINION | Nothing to be ashamed of for City College Knights basketball

Despite a frustrating elimination, Knights basketball concluded a successful season.

Jonny Rico, Editor-in-Chief • March 2, 2019

Despite a first round playoff elimination after consecutive state finals, the Knights concluded a successful season.

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The American Nightmare

A look into the modern black American experience

CJ Stevenson, Legend Staff • May 23, 2018

In a 1967 NBC News interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, roughly three and half years after his famous “I Have Dream” speech on the Washington Monument, King explained to the interviewer that his...

MTS eases access with mobile ticketing app

Monica de la Cruz, Managing Editor • February 28, 2018

Feb. 28, 2018 As the No. 7 bus approaches the B Street stop, its display flashes the warning to riders, HAVE FARE READY. While most riders prepare to board as usual by pulling out their wallets, some...

“Marvel’s Black Panther” shifts a historically inaccurate rhetoric

CJ Stevenson, News Editior • February 28, 2018

Towards the end of "Marvel's Black Panther", I was fighting back tears. You see, Hollywood...

Why Volunteering Makes me Happy?

The Week of Service at Chicano Park Oct 16-20

October 31, 2017

The week of service at City College is the busiest week thus far for students, faculty, and alumni. They can volunteer to serve their downtown community by cleaning the cultural Chicano Park and feeding...

Hey Mom, I’m queer!

National Coming Out Day is Oct. 11

Shaylyn Martos, Editor-in-Chief • October 5, 2017

National Coming Out Day is next Wednesday, a day that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people can come forward and declare to whoever they want, “Hey, I’m ___ and I’m proud!” The...

Make college more affordable with textbook alternatives

Joshua Nelson • April 11, 2017

It’s over halfway through the semester, and I still haven’t opened my textbooks. Even though I bought them with every intention of doing so, it just hasn’t seemed necessary. Textbooks seem to...

I like to read

James Stevenson Jr. • April 11, 2017

In the past year, I have read three books — “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” “Dreams and Shadows” and “The Forever War.” I have also read two graphic novels: “Superman: American Alien”...

I Don’t Like to Read

Esai Melendez • April 11, 2017

The average human attention span lasts about 8.25 seconds, which is shorter than the 9-second attention span held by a goldfish. This is according to the Statistic Brain Institute. In short, people can’t...

Letter from the Editor – The press under fire

James Call • March 14, 2017

Journalist Dan Rather calls it "an emergency." And it is. Said Rather, "The time for normalizing, dissembling, and explaining away Donald Trump has long since passed. The barring of respected journalistic...

What happens when you lose your health care?

James Call • March 14, 2017

Republicans are scrambling to “repeal and replace” Obamacare with little consensus so far on how to accomplish it. Citizens are worried about their coverage. The student health care that our $19 per...

Letter from the editor – The press under fire

James Call • March 13, 2017

Journalist Dan Rather calls it "an emergency." And it is. Said Rather, "The time for normalizing, dissembling, and explaining away Donald Trump has long since passed. The barring of respected journalistic...