The conversation started on a long Uber ride. The driver, originally from Colombia, said he knows a lot of Colombians living in the U.S. “without papers.” He argued that they are good people paying taxes and should be left alone. I responded that I believe they are good people paying ...
In February, members of the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) basketball team locked arms and took a knee in what Coach Jason Shay called a symbolic protest against “racial inequalities and injustices.” The First Amendment protects such peaceful, political symbolic expression, but ...
“The anguish we are suffering cannot translate into violence.” So said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey last week in the wake of yet another police killing of yet another unarmed African-American man. The sentiment was altogether fitting and proper, especially given that his city was the ...
State, county and city leaders faced a big test in the aftermath of the tragic killing of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old man shot by former Brooklyn Center police officer Kimberly A. Potter Sunday. Tensions were heightened because Wright's death came during the trial of former Minneapolis ...
The chants heard in downtown Morgantown Thursday evening were exactly the same as those that echoed through the same streets last summer. Black Lives Matter. No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police. There was one notable difference. When leaders chanted “Say his ...
The Dominion Post's top five pictures of the year A lot has happened in the last twelve months, and The Dominion Post's photographers have been out in the community capturing as much of is at the can. Based on social media data, specifically Instagram likes, we were able to determine some ...