Since the dawn of human evolution, sports and sporting events have contributed to human growth and development by incorporating skills used to survive with competitive activity. Oftentimes, a fun spirited...

When I got my AncestryDNA results back everything I thought was my ancestry and ethnicity changed in the blink of an eye. For my entire life, through my mother’s life and my grandmother’s life,...

Over the past few years, it has become increasingly difficult to determine which side of a story is true, if information is factual, or if the phenomenon of fake news has leaked into every aspect of fact-finding...

The world was a different place in 2015. Presidents still had decorum, the #metoo movement was still unborn and the nation’s public moral conversations of today had yet to begin. In the middle of...

Too often when individuals of the LGBT and black communities find themselves at the center of negative attention, the whole community seems to suffer the consequences. When one individual’s actions...

With the collective focus of the campus community firmly placed on administrative changes that have been happening over the past year, many of the other changes on campus have possibly been overlooked. In...

In 2018, 29 Republican and 14 Democratic U.S. senators wanted to make it illegal for businesses and business owners to boycott Israel through an unconstitutional bill, Senate Bill 720, that violates the...

The mission statement for any upstanding institute of higher learning should be to provide the greatest opportunity for student success, and at Contra Costa College every endeavor seems to be cultivated...

While most people who watched the movie “Roma” agree that director Alfonso Cuarón transformed a simple storyline into a masterpiece, many of them won’t hesitate to add “but” into headliner Yalitza...

For students and members of the Contra Costa College campus community, the fresh start that accompanies the beginning of a semester is a welcomed opportunity to re-write the wrongs of semesters past. If...

Tyson Fury and WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder each had one mission going into the 12th and final round of their championship boxing match on Saturday. For Fury, it was to stick and move and avoid...

Last month, the Camp Fire in Butte County proved to be an event that brought tragedy to the doorstep of tens of thousands of people. With similar catastrophic events comes many smaller instances of tragedy...