This cover art reflects the history of 1968 Olympic winners Tommie “Jet” Smith and John Carlos protesting racial inequality in the U.S. Toni Cervantes was an Olympic swimmer who witnessed the events that took place at the Mexico City Games. Here story is also in this issue, and can be read here: https://medium.com/laney-tower/1968-olympic-protest-still-resonates-tower-staffer-was-an-eyewitness-to-climactic-events-in-d1a1e634a721
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Remembering 1963 — Laney Tower Cover Art for March 14
March 26, 2019
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In the fall of 2019, The Laney Tower rebranded as The Citizen and launched a new website. These stories were ported over from the old Laney Tower website, but byline metadata was lost in the port. However, many of these stories credit the authors in the text of the story. Some articles may also suffer from formatting issues. Future archival efforts may fix these issues.