The New Citizens Press

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.

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.