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by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne Mohawk          I, along with millions of others, watched the trial of Derek Chauvin, 45, charged in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the killing of George Floyd, 46, on May 25, 2020. Numerous...

By Matt DeCristo “Us” is the second movie crafted by rising filmmaker Jordan Peele, and immediately joins last year’s “A Quiet Place” as one of the better horror titles of the decade. Like its predecessor “Get...

      By C. Harris-Lockwood During the course of a Zoom call of the Steering Committee of College Community Partnership for Police Reform, it became apparent to the participants that there were systemic racial problems in the...

August Holidays and Observances August 1     Colorado Day August 2     Friendship Day - Lammas (Cross Quarter Day) August 3     Ernie Pyle Day in New Mexico August 4     Coast Guard Day August 14    Atlantic Charter Day - World War II Day in Arkansas August 16    National Airborne...

   By Dr. Emmie Pizarro    Refugee (refyoō jē), a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. From the French word refugie, meaning gone in...

By Joseph J. Jacob Gerrymandering is a rearrangement of voting districts’ boundaries, to favor the party in power. Gerrymandering is used to dilute the voting power of the opposing party’s supporters, and to extract the...

By Mark Ziobro “John Wick: Chapter 3” is violent as hell. Sure, it’s antecedent, para bellum, derived from the Latin for “prepare for war,” should have you believe nothing less. It’s also a cinematographer’s and...

By Ron Klopfanstein Celebrating and supporting the LGBTQ Community is more important than ever this year, there are many ways to do that right here in the Mohawk Valley In 1969, Woodstock took place, and man...

  by Doug George-Kanentiio Under the provisions of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), of which Israel is a signatory, the Palestinian people are native and have a right to live...

My Friend Was Killed Running from a Canadian Residential School by Doug George-Kanentiio Akwesasne Mohawk   On a clear September evening at 5:14 pm in the west end of Toronto my friend, 13 year old Joey Commanda,...