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Doctor Facilier and Black Panther from Cosplay at Long Beach Comic Expo 2014. Black fans exist and Hollywood should be courting that audience as much as they cater to other audiences. Photo courtesy of Flickr

“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...

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Service Week, Oct. 16-20, 2017.

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...

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Under the rainbow at the Pride Parade in Hillcrest on July 14, 2017.

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...

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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...

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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”...

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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...

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Letter from the Editor - The press under fire

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...

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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...

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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...

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What happens when you lose your healthcare?

James Call March 13, 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...

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Activism or ‘slacktivism?

By Esai Melendez December 19, 2016

If you've seen anybody wearing a safety pin recently, it means that they're supporting race and sexual minorities in America who have been victims of hate crimes after Donald Trump became the president-elect. Some...

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California’s progressive lean

Thomas Chesy December 10, 2016

The anger Californians feel after President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning victory is understandable; the people of the state have voted Hillary Clinton for president three times now across two primaries...

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