The game consisted of a handful of students, all Caucasian, who wore the T-shirts with words “Illegal Immigrant” written on the front and the words “Catch Me If You Can” bannered across the back. If another student encountered one of the students donning the shirt, he or she could bring the “illegal immigrant” back to the Young Conservatives of Texas table where he or she would be awarded a prize.

It’s a cute advertisement, sure - but in a day when immigration is a touchy subject for a lot of people on both sides of the border fence, is it smart to be, at least inadvertently, saying that a successful Mexican Reconquista of American lands is a good thing?

Cable News Network kicked off its black college tour Tuesday on the campus of Florida A&M University. The purpose of CNN’s tour is to conduct a study for its documentary titled “Black in America.”

So I picked up the phone over spring break to ask my grandma what she thought about the death of one of society’s most beloved people and the thoughts that ran through her head when he was assassinated. I know what you’re going to say, why didn’t you go visit your grandmother? She only lives five miles at best from your house. Alright I’m sorry and yes I feel horrible about it. Are you happy now?

Perhaps his legacy is best summed up in the signs carried by the Memphis sanitation workers whose strike was the cause of Martin Luther King’s arrival in Memphis. They read: “I am a man.”

Today we honor the life and memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a compassionate leader whose life was tragically cut short 40 years ago today. On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. Though he was only 39 years old, he had already dramatically changed the landscape of life in America.