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Fort Myers white-supremist Twitter account is only a glimpse of today’s racism

February 27, 2016

Undoubtedly, social media — along with the rest of the Internet — serves a great helping hand in connecting people with like ideas in the hopes of promoting positive change. Sites such as GoFundMe...

Terrorism has no religion

December 17, 2015

The San Bernardino shooting and the Paris attacks have put many Americans on edge, and Donald Trump's xenophobic comments have only escalated the existing tensions. With the recent terror attacks in the...

Inclusion in Missouri is the only path toward resolution

November 30, 2015

Like Aiden Strawhun, who wrote the “Exclusion in Missouri hinders resolution” article in the Nov. 18 edition of Eagle News, I paid close attention to student protests at Mizzou and what their goals...

Exclusion in Missouri hinders resolution

November 18, 2015

The nation has watched the events unfold at University of Missouri Colombia, or Mizzou. Since August, a number of protests have occurred, and now, it seems the tensions have finally reached their peak. A...

Questions for white people

September 30, 2015

BuzzFeed, the Internet media company responsible for all of your favorite oddball quizzes, released a video last month, — “24 Questions Black People Have for White People” — and while it was light...

Racism is not dead

June 29, 2015

Race is a social construction. Race is not biological. In 2007, Rachel Dolezal, who is the former Spokane NAACP president, decided instead of being white, she would be black. This masquerade was going...

We all are to blame for racism

March 24, 2015

Racism and hate are colorblind. These qualities are embedded in the hearts of all races. Racism does not discriminate against whose life it touches and neither does hate. However, both qualities produce...

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