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During a speaking engagement at Mid Michigan Leadership Academy, a student looks over a portrait of Rina Risper. It was painted by David Jones who is incarcerated in a Michigan prison.
Photo by Yohnny Cardena-Abad, 8th Grade, Mid Michigann Leadership Academy
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An Open Letter to the Right Wing Pundits:
The Hypocrisy of the Right on Wright
A Different Drug Problem……
(Editor’s note – this has been circulated on the internet and I thought I would share it with my readers.)
Wars have been fought since the dawn of mankind. There’s something within mankind that gives us an insatiable need to fight for what we think is ours.
THE RICHARDSON REPORT: CAN THE GOP WIN THE PRESIDENCY WITHOUT PLAYING THE RACE CARD?
This past week, I had a surprise visit from my mother who lives in Georgia. Surprise wasn’t the half of it. On a Saturday night at 11:59 p.m., she contacted me to let me know that she would be flying into Grand Rapids at 12:00 p.m. Grand Rapids? Did she know how much gas was?
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Being biracial isn’t the hardest thing in the world but having to grow up with the prejudices that it brings is. I’m the proud product of a Black Caribbean American mother and a white Italian biological father.