Trump and Alternative Facts

by Myliyah Hanna (Image source: http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-board-tirade/files/2016/07/IS-His-Life-Worth-More-Than-Mine.jpg) We have been under the Trump presidency for almost two months now. Yet, before even a month ended the Trump presidency found itself in the face of scandal after scandal. He signed an executive order banning Muslims from seven Muslim-majority countries, as they have been deemed the areas creating so-called[…]

The Effects of Black Poverty Reach Beyond the Poor

by Alexander Adames, Student Editor-in-Chief Earlier this month, CNN hosted a Democratic Debate in Flint, Michigan. At this debate, Anderson Cooper asked the candidates, “What racial blind spots do you have?” Senator Bernie Sanders answered, “when you’re white, you don’t know what it’s like to be living in a ghetto. You don’t know what it’s[…]