America’s ongoing struggle with race added another, grisly episode this past weekend when 18-year-old Payton Gendron sprayed the parking lot and interior of a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, N.Y. […]
Author Archives: Gregg Reese
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Revisionist history 101: Dis-remembering the Alamo
During the settlement of the “New World,” American history and mythology evolved simultaneously, to the point where the lines between each became blurred. Among the most prominent of these is […]
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History in the making
Our 46th President, Joseph R. Biden, has just passed his first anniversary in office, and with the retirement of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and the opportunity to appoint his successor, […]
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Defaming his name: Martin Luther King Day, 2022
Time and tested words of wisdom offer succor during the passage of harsh times, trial and tribulation, none more so than those of Martin Luther King. The present day hardships […]
Posted inEntertainment
A scholarly symposium in Expo Park
The future of African-America’s sway over the arts was manifested with an overflow crowd in place at the first inauguration of the Black Comics Festival held at the California African […]
Posted inCovers, Local
A civil service memoir
It’s 1980 and timing is everything. Cheryl Dorsey’s daily grind of typing reports for on-going investigations in the secretarial pool at the Department of Justice was interrupted by an offer, […]
Posted inCovers
A civil service memoir
It’s 1980 and timing is everything. Cheryl Dorsey’s daily grind of typing reports for on-going investigations in the secretarial pool at the Department of Justice was interrupted by an offer, […]
Posted inEntertainment, National
Remember her name: Irene Cara brought the soundtrack of the 80s
“I don’t mean to sound immodest, but I’d never had any doubt that I’d be successful, nor any fear of success. I was raised as a little goddess who was […]
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Time Capsule: Memories of the Vietnam War
In 1969, Udon Air Force Base, Thailand. Captain Harold Archibald was on duty in support of the air war over North Vietnam in a secure building just north of the […]
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Proposition 29
Hemodialysis, also spelled haemodialysis, or simply dialysis, is the process by which blood is purified of the waste products which would otherwise be removed by properly functioning kidneys. In the […]
