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Telling and Taking Back Tulsa: Resisting Erasure and Americana Appropriation
Dr. Maulana KarengaOpinion

Telling and Taking Back Tulsa: Resisting Erasure and Americana Appropriation

Dr. Maulana KarengaJune 3, 2021

This current focus of the country on this horrendous act of racist terrorism, massacre and mayhem and destruction imposed and inflicted on the Black people of Tulsa, May 31-June 1, does not come as an expression of required contrition after a century of concealment and denial. Rather, it comes as a result of the long difficult, dangerous, deadly and demanding struggle by Black people for freedom, justice and equity in this country.

Student Voter Registration Events Held September 25, 2018
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Student Voter Registration Events Held September 25, 2018

Sentinel News ServiceSeptember 21, 2018

Student organizations throughout the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) are organizing a variety of events at the District’s nine colleges in conjunction with National Voter Registration Day on September 25, 2018.  The district-wide student voter registration activities are also in response to a call by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and the March for Our Lives organization to ensure young people are empowered to let their voices be heard at the ballot box.

We Must Never Forget Hattie Carroll
Julianne MalveauxOp-EdOpinion

We Must Never Forget Hattie Carroll

Julianne MalveauxApril 5, 2018

Hattie Carroll (1911-1963) was a 51-year-old restaurant server who was murdered by a White aristocrat, 24-year-old William Devereux Zantzinger (1939-2009) who struck her with a cane, because she took too long to serve him a drink, during The Spinsters’ Ball, an event at the old Emerson Hotel in Baltimore. Zantzinger’s crime was minimized, and he got a scant six months in jail (not prison) for killing a woman, the mother of at least nine children, who was more than twice his age, and with just a fraction of his power.