“As you know we atheists are a happy lot, we’re deeply moral but we don’t have a mountain of artificial guilt. We do feel guilty about our misdeeds but we don’t consider them sins. Well how about...
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By Liz Caranza
As I walked up the ramp, the smell of steak and bacon wrapped hot dogs filled the air as a sea of silver and black cheered “Raiders!” I couldn’t...
By Fayola Perry
W.E.B. DuBois, author and black revolutionary, once asked, "how does it feel to be a problem?" It is a question anyone must consider when studying or discussing blackness, or the state...
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By Oscar Gutierrez
[dropcap size="50px"]O[/dropcap]ne of the most important pieces of advice my mother ever gave me was “It is better to ask for forgiveness than...
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By Liz Carranza
Back in March I visited New York for the Society for Collegiate Journalists Conference, where journalism programs from around the nation gathered...
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By Fayola Perry
In the 1995 movie "Friday," Craig, played by Ice Cube, and Smokey, played by Chris Tucker, are sitting on Craig’s porch when the resident dope...
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By Oscar Gutierrez
I walked into a daytime punk show at a bar in San Francisco where the person at the door took a thick Sharpie marker and drew two huge X’s...
By Colin Blake
When the last Altoid is consumed, the container is often tossed as soon as possible. However, even though the tin material is not resilient like steel, or as rigid...
It’s that time of year when all I hear is ESPN Sportscenter’s “dah dah dah, dah dah dah” theme song jingle from my cellphone at the most random times of the day.
It’s the best time of...
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By Oscar Gutierrez
“Un, dos, tres, cuatro!”
I was shoved into a wall as a sea of punk rockers in leather jackets and colored hair slammed into each other...