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Battleground Schools: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Desegregation

Analysis, Dana Zimbleman, Nonfiction, Writings / By Dana Zimbleman

In Honor of Black History Month After last week’s horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it’s tempting to romanticize the past and imagine that obtaining an education was once not as dangerous of a proposition as it is now. However, the young people who led the charge to desegregate […]

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Ben Carson Under Fire

I cannot call what happened at UCC in Roseburg, Oregon a tragedy. Gun violence in general and mass shootings in particular have become too common place in America to call them tragedies. They are the natural consequences of allowing easy and unrestricted access to guns and ammunition. (Full disclosure: I own guns and a concealed