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Anti-abortionists share their controversial message

April 10, 2014

The Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust visited campus on Tuesday, April 8 and brought pictures and handouts to educate the students...

Former Black Panther captain to speak about memoir

Maria Lopez, Online Editor

April 9, 2014

Political activist and former captain of the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party, Aaron Dixon, will do two presentations on his memoir 'My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain' on Thursday, April 10 in LC 155. Aaron Dixon will give two presentations, one from 8 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. and the other from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a...

Hold on, let me take a selfie

Larissa Morales, Staff Writer

April 1, 2014

Selfies or belfies, which are photos taken of your face or your entire body have become a huge craze in the recent year. They’re...

Talon Talks: Is it still a man’s world?

March 24, 2014

The subject is more serious than previous episodes, but it's still something that should be discussed. Everything points to...

Issues of Abuse workshop educates audience

Katherine Grijalva, Copy Editor

March 24, 2014

The Issues of Abuse Workshop was held on Thursday, March 13 at 11 a.m. at the Business Education Building (BE 119), where it educated the audience on the different types of abuse. The event was hosted by Shannon Estrada, the advisor for the Re-Entry Resource Program at Cerritos College, and the workshop was provided for students both on and off campus...

‘Unbought and Unbossed’ opens eyes to women in politics

Maria Lopez, Online Editor

March 18, 2014

Latosha Davis, a child development major, had only briefly heard about Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman...

Fair take on sports

Zeinab Chahine, Staff Writer

March 10, 2014

The popularity of men’s sports isn’t equivalent to the popularity of women’s sport and that is maybe why covering either is different. Men’s sport are more popular, so covering the story is more important. From the beginning, sports hero's were considered to be men, that maybe because the origin of many sports was linked to war and about...

A sexist world

Maria Lopez, Online Editor

March 10, 2014

This month is National Women’s History Month and it should be noted that although women have come a long way in the past century, there are still many obstacles women face every day around the world. Every day women are discriminated, objectified, harassed, raped, sexually assaulted, battered and abused by people they may or may not know. Men ...