Nicole Johnson

  • City College students make yearly march 3-4 to Capitol

    The annual march to the state Capitol is approaching March 4 as City College students prepare to march to support higher education. March in March Coordinator Kimberlee Beyrer said students are encouraged to meet at the fountain between the Performing Arts building and the City Café at 8:30 a.m. where…

  • March to the capitol 3-8 to end violence against women

    City College students will prepare for a rally hosted by Women Organized to Resist and Defend in Southside Park on March 8. According to W.O.R.D Sacramento’s Community Outreach Chair, Autumn Thomas-Morales, the group intends to conduct a 4 p.m. rally at the park on 6th and U St. followed by…

  • Two souls are better than one

    Drip, drip, dripping One by one the tears slip through dampened lashes Trailing down my cheeks and past my quivering lips. It is not enough to know that I’m truly sorry? My body shakes from the constant agony of your departure. My soul impaired and ghastly Pitter, patter and it…

  • Bad Girls Rule The World

    We can pretend it’s the goodness within her heart that keeps her around. You don’t see what I see when you’re not around. I’ve sat back within the chair that rocks as she pour her emptied soul into the people And they fall to their knees blinded by the rays…

  • skyline

    It was the eve into the midnight sky Where I stood up once I realized Nothing at all was what it once seemed. We sat side by side, limbs not touching– not even for a mere greeting. You looked at me and my eyes remained on the sky. “Forgive me,”…

  • Scattered Showers

    A moment of happiness surfaced upon my face, As the creases of the desert filled with rain. I never imagined that it would feel so good to gaze up at the moonless sky, And for once not have to hide. Here I can be who I am and not pretend.…

  • Mommy’s dream

    You used to hold my hand so tight. It felt like the tendons would snap. But the pain alone was enough to know I was still alive. We sat across from one another and only you would know what I was thinking My expressions were hard to stifle and yet…

  • Third’s the charm

    Back pressed against the cold, hard concrete Troubled eyes facing the sky. I wish I could take it back, because deep down I want to cry. I am my own worst enemy Sometimes I don’t have to try at all because this demon creeps in my ear, Whispering things only…

  • Obama makes an attempt to tighten the reigns on gun purchases

    President Obama strives to ban the purchase of assault rifles to every day civilians as well as to make it harder for them to purchase guns. According to the Huffington Post, the second-term president has proposed 23 separate executive actions to limiting gun violence which include a mental health check…

  • Day dreamer pt.2

    Staying up most nights, thinking with my eyes closed, Trying to find my way back through the maze that leads to the dream tunnel. Round and round I go, everything looks as if it had before. Round and round I go until there it was, Right in front of my…