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Opinion: How we can change the policing system

I’m sure everyone knows about the murder of George Floyd by now. The impact of his death is evident from the protests that are happening across the country, to the black fist that is now the profile picture of thousands of social media accounts. Many people,...

The bloodbath on Israel’s Gaza border is fueled by Hamas

by Carmel Abramov

After the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza, many questions remain of how these protests are organized and the how they unfolded. Several weeks ago, Hamas organized a "March of Return" – weekly riots at the Israel-Gaza border leading up to May 15, Nakba (catastrophe)...

Opinion: Protests need to grow out of rioting

by Foothill Technology High School

Riots. Angry protesters flood the streets with the sewage of hatred and anger, bursting apart towns and neighborhoods with outlashes of violence. The fires of discontent boil in the murky velvet of their blood and in vexed passion they gather in hordes of fury to...

Museum exhibit remembers 1992 Los Angeles riots on its 25th anniversary

by evakaganovsky

As you enter the new exhibition “No Justice, No Peace: LA 1992,” at the California African American Museum (CAAM), you are taken through an eye-opening experience into the world of hardships that African Americans had to endure in the 1900's. Tyree Boyd-Pates curated...

Watts Revisited: 50 years later, what has changed?

by Isabella Balandran

A young African American male gets pulled over to the side of the road for reckless driving. An officer administers a field sobriety test and determines that the young man needs to be arrested and his vehicle impounded. However, the young man’s brother interjects,...