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A City Council resolution, the cynics tell us, is “just words.” But the words in Resolution 0976-2019—which has languished for more than a year without a vote—very much matter. They point the way to a better and safer world. The…

For all his philanthropy, Gates is deeply committed to protecting the rights of patent holders. By Linda McQuaig Hard to believe now, but in the first few months of the pandemic it looked like the world was going to act…

The Epoch Times, the propaganda arm of the U.S.-backed Chinese cult Falun Gong, has built an unholy alliance among anti-China, anti-communist Republicans, far right domestic terrorists, and Donald Trump by organizing carpet-bombing amounts of unlimited fake news coverage against China,…

A 77-year-old veteran Army medic accused organizers of an American Legion Memorial Day event of censoring him on Wednesday, days after his microphone was cut as he attempted to share how the holiday was originally celebrated by Black people who…

An underappreciated factor in the racist violence of the 1921 Tulsa massacre is how white supremacist forces decimated Black wealth. By Sonali Kolhatkar One hundred years after the worst instance of racist mob violence in 20th-century America, the Tulsa Race…

Silvia from Miami, Eduardo from Hialeah, Abel from Lakeland. The names pour in on the donations page for “Syringes to Cuba” as Carlos Lazo promotes the campaign on his popular Facebook livestream. An energetic Cuban-American high school teacher in Seattle,…

Literary         by Jhon Sanchez Last May 2, we brought you the first part of the collections of poems written to honor the life and legacy of our dear professor and great poet Lewis Warsh, who passed…

LITERARY         By Yani Perez Hmmm It’s bold I like it Have you ever Seen words Dance in The moonlight And then they ask you to spin with them? Maestro You were the words The dance The…

LITERARY         by Jhon Sanchez For Lewis Warsh   One thousand years later, he was free. He had been locked up inside the farthest dungeon. When he was there he learned how to write and read On…

ART         by John High     About the artist:   Zen monk and poet, Ninso John High is the recipient of four Fulbrights and has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (fiction and…