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How QAnon came to be, and why it’s still here On this edition of State Hornet: Spotlight, podcast staffers Rose Vega and Gavin Rock talk with Sacramento State history professor Joseph Palermo. Palermo, who has done research and writing on Watergate and 1950s politics, discusses the history and recent rise of conspiracy theories like QAnon and how politicians use them for personal and party gain. M...

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DACA fully reinstated for first time since 2017 ‘Nothing in my life is secure’: Sac State DACA recipients speak out Sac State Dreamer Resource Center CHIRLA website

This week on Spotlight, news reporter Gavin Rock spoke with Sacramento State professor Mona Siegel about the life of suffragette and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell. Siegel presented a brief slideshow of Terrell’s life for the Crocker Art Museum’s U-Nite 2020. Music: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod

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On this episode of State Hornet: Spotlight, podcast editor Robbie Pierce and editor-in-chief Max Connor talk with Daraka Larimore-Hall, a vice chair of the state Democratic Party and political strategist and consultant, about why some of the ballot propositions turned out the way they did and what it means for California and both political parties going forward. Larimore-Hall also discusses some o...

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During our Hornet Speaker Series last month, Pulitzer Prize-winning State Hornet alumnus reporter Russ Buettner appeared on our Twitch stream Oct. 21 to discuss how to manage and find sources for hard-hitting investigative stories, find a career in the modern journalistic landscape and earn and keep an audience’s respect and attention in today’s lightning-fast media cycle. Buettner, a collaborator...

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The State Hornet hosted its first ever live Twitch event last week: the Hornet Speaker Series of virtual Q&A sessions. Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize winner, author of “They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement” and creator of The Washington Post’s “Fatal Force” project, spoke to Sacramento State journalism students Monday, Oct. 18. Lowery...

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On this episode of State Hornet: Spotlight, Sacramento State President Robert Nelsen talks to State Hornet podcast editor Robbie Pierce and editor-in-chief Max Connor about when and how campus might reopen, the reasons student tuition and fees have not been reduced, the future of commencement ceremonies, when sports will return and more. Nelsen also talks about his personal history, from growing u...

State Hornet reporters Chanelle Muerong and Garry Singh bring you another episode of the State Hornet: Spotlight audio profile series, this time featuring Sac State business alumnus and Onit Coffee CEO Shadi Khattab. Khattab discusses the role coffee played in his family life, how and why he founded a coffee truck, how he’s grown his business through social media marketing, his plans for expansion...

On the first episode of our new State Hornet: Spotlight audio profile series, multimedia reporter Sara Nevis talks with local father, activist and chef Berry Accius to discuss his personal history and views on activism, what more he feels needs to be done following the shooting death of Zarrie Allen, the need for follow-through and community initiatives within activist spaces, what “defund the pol...