By Walter Jones and Jose Garcia With the recent tensions in Ferguson, Mo. students may find it worthwhile to learn about the racial debate in America. Professor Pamela Chao, instructor of Sociology...

With all the talk about California possibly being divided into six states, one starts to wonder how this will affect us students? Most of the students that I know attend junior colleges. Many will transfer...

For years people said the West Coast is dead and that the good artists are in New York or the South. From 2005 to 2010, two people (Game and E-40) have mainly represented West Coast hip-hop. Now we are...

When people look at me, they see me as an African American male – even though neither I nor any member of my immediate family has been to Africa – but what they don’t know is that there is more to...

Nowadays, it seems that any random person can become a successful musician without actual talent, but when it comes to hip-hop, there is more to it than just rhyming words together over a beat. So I ask...

She used to say, “Yes, yes y’all and you don’t stop.” Hearing these words always ensured me that she was going to take me to a place of beautiful bliss. This girl was hip-hop. Growing up in the...

By Adnan Ramic and Walter Jones On Jan. 16, actor Chris Hemsworth and president of the Academy Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced the nominations for the 86th Academy Awards. Films “Gravity” and “American...

The winter season is rapidly approaching the American River College campus. The skies are grey and cloudy, and the streets are slick with fallen rain. Students start to bundle up as the rain hit school...

By Melissa Hurtado and Walter Jones American River College is taking steps to ensure campus safety because school shootings are gaining more prominence in the media. The Sandy Hook, Columbine and...

The 2013 season is underway and the American River College women’s soccer team is looking to build off last years successful season. They finished with a 13-6-4 record last season making them the No....

The No. 11 ranked American River College women’s soccer team kicked off its season Saturday, Aug. 31, playing host to the No. 7 ranked team College of the Canyons.  Despite a strong end to the 2012...