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LANSING, MI—The African-American community owes a great debt to Susan J. Hill, the director of  the Capital Area District Library, which governs 13 local libraries and a bookmobile, and Kathy Johnson, the head librarian at the downtown main library, and their staff  for their annual honoring of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday with a relevant, insightful, and delightful presentation with prestigious guest speakers.

By Jonathan Livingston

Like many Americans, this past weekend and every weekend during this time of year, I watched what many argue is the purest form of entertainment, the NCAA tournament.  Like most folks this season, as the field narrowed, my bracket sheet was thrown out of the window, but while watching these games, like most Americans, in between commercials and when we turned the channel, my attention was focused on the war of Iraq, liberation of Iraq, or the strike against Iraq, depending on what channel you stumbled across.

I tried to teach them

Hey little youth, can I speak with you?
Wearing your jeans real saggy and your T-shirt too
And your favorite color is either red or blue
And you take a lot of pride in the name of your crew
Nobody better disrespect or there is no telling what you will do
Because you’re crazy! A little thug is in you.

By: Jonathan Livingston

Until I was 13, I never knew what rape was.  I was introduced to the word rape in the most unusual of circumstances. While under the influence of alcohol, a man who my aunt had been dating for six months tried to seduce my younger aunt while my older aunt, the one he was dating, was asleep.  From what I can remember about this experience, my older aunt hit him on the head with a lamp, woke up her older sister, and called over my uncles.

By Elizabeth Aguirre
For the New Citizens Press

    To Detroit Pistons head coach Richard Carlisle, the second encounter with the Golden State Warriors in nine days wasn’t fun until it was over.