Las Vegas-Clark County Library District

Black Paper Party’s 2020 Christmas Collection

Black Paper Party’s 2020 Christmas Collection Traditionally, Christmas gift-giving is embodied by happy people enjoying the warmth of the season. But rarely have the faces of Santa Claus or the joyful families been Black. According to fatherly.com, only about three percent of all department store Santas in the U.S. are African American. The Black Paper […]

PEACE: The control we set free

Society often demands that we stay in control given the positions we maintain. The consistent discipline that the world depends on is itself dependent upon our ability to assimilate and regulate our comfort. But sometimes the universe demands that we stop and release. Let go — and trust the motion of the earth to turn […]

America Needs To Take The Holidays To Search Its Soul | By Louie Overstreet

America Needs To Take The Holidays To Search Its Soul BY LOUIE OVERSTREET America, as a functioning democracy, needs to seriously search its soul. Further, too many of us chose not to do anything when we witnessed Trump damn near bludgeon democracy to death. First, we have to stop opposing good ideas on the sole […]

NEW DAY – How the 2020 election put Nevada’s political diversity on display for the nation.

NEW DAY – How the 2020 election put Nevada’s political diversity on display for the nation. There was a time when Las Vegas was known as the “Mississippi of the West,” a reputation owed to pervasive racial discrimination in housing, employment, and education during most of the 20th century. The November elections cemented the reality that […]

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