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White high schoolers on a quest to hear black jazz icon

La La Land was pelted with jokes galore for its alleged depiction of a white man who wanted to “save” jazz. Personally, I thought the attacks were unfair. The way I saw it, Ryan Gosling’s character was simply a white musician who idolized and was…

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25 Years Later: Re-examining the Lucasville Uprising

History books often contain a chapter that tries to answer the question: What caused such-and-such a revolt or revolution?

For example: What caused the “Boston Massacre” in 1770 when British troops stationed in Boston fired on a crowd that…

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7 days in … the doldrums

We had yet another week of very little to be joyful about. The executive branch is fixated on destroying our environment and living out childhood fantasies by playing around with the military. We are yet to see a sanguine and inspiring candidate…

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The View of the March For Our Lives from My Phone

On March 24, 2018, over 1.2 million people across the country rallied and marched to show the political establishment and the gun lobby that the American people are serious about gun control. Unfortunately, I was not one of them. As a father of…

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