The New Citizens Press

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.

By Melik   

What a rush.  The Recruit is a nice little roller coaster ride of emotion.  This is not your basic two-dimensional action adventure piece.  The Recruit actually dares to have characters with depth.   The setup is you have a bored highly intelligent young James Clayton played by Colin Farrell that is being sought after by a veteran CIA agent Walter Burke, played by the extraordinary Al Pacino.

Low-Income Residents Can Take Advantage of Millions in Tax Incentives;
City Seeks Volunteer Finance Professionals to Help with Program

Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides will join Jill Rhode, Lansing City Treasurer; Douglas Stites, Capital Area Michigan Works! Chief Executive Officer; Susan Cocciarelli, Specialist of the Center for Urban Affairs at Michigan State University; and David Wiener, Mayoral Executive Assistant, in announcing plans to coordinate a community-wide low-income tax assistance program beginning at 4 p.m. today, Tuesday, February 18 in the lobby of Lansing City Hall, located at 124 W. Michigan Ave. in downtown Lansing.

By Jonathan Livingston

Over the past 30 years, a good deal of debate has occurred concerning whether our current public school system can educate our children and provide them with the skills needed to be productive citizens. Upon closer look at the state of education as it relates to Black children, we find that over 45% of minority males in this country drop out of high school.

When we met you told me stories of your ex,
How you were taken for granted, alienated, disrespected,
Mistreated, to the end never cherished.
I shook my head and as a man wished I could’ve shouldered the blame,
And with time show you love, take away the pain.
 

By Jonathan Livingston
   
“…And what of love”, wrote the poet Kahlil Gibran.  Before reading this passage from The Prophet as a young boy, I never thought of love and what it meant to love and be loved.  I was given and shown love by my family and my community, but I never had experienced the love between a man and a woman.