During the last few years, I’ve been heartbroken by stories about young people choosing paths of violent extremism. I’m talking about people like Dylann Roof, the young white supremacist whose…
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Every morning, I wake up certain the news, my email, and social media will be flooded with headlines about Donald Trump. While political coverage is most commonly found in The…
Everyone knows the best part about the Super Bowl is watching the commercials. But what about breaking them? At this one-of-a-kind Super Bowl party presented by The LAMP at the…
The aftermath of the ‘not guilty’ verdict in the George Zimmerman trial has (rightly, methinks) been dominating the media. So much writing has been spilled on the subject, and my…
George Zimmerman’s trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin has started and, of course, so has the constant media blitz. As it happens most of the time, I tuned in…
I am not a huge fan of Nancy Grace and the grim tales of grizzly homicides, graphic criminal acts, and disturbed cases that she covers regularly on her show on…
It’s been almost six years to the day that Don Imus had the loose lips to call Rutger University’s (mostly Black) girls basketball team “nappy-headed hoes” on MSNBC’s Imus in…
Over the weekend, The LAMP wrapped up a six-week session with a group of teens in Queens who created their own Public Service Announcements (PSAs) talking back to issues of…
More than a few of us here at The LAMP are avid soccer fans, and joined the millions of people who were struck with terror on Saturday when Bolton Wanderers’…
As a white girl growing up in a small town, I learned plenty about racist American history during my childhood and understood its injustice at a young age. But I…
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