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A mix of history lessons, academic essays, thought-provoking interviews and topical opinion pieces, What’s My Name, Fool? is at its best when taking us deeper inside the minds of adored icons than we’re used to.

The children took an oath which stated: “I …promise to execute the office of Litter Prevention Marshal to the best of my ability. I will set an example to other children, and to adults by not littering and by helping to keep the parks clean.�

Members of the City Council wanted to send Washington off in style, so at its most recent meeting, the council presented him with a proclamation. Calling him “a man of great humility and quiet strength� and pointing to his “integrity and deep intelligence,� the proclamation speaks of Paul Washington’s “passionate dedication to principles of social justice that has helped him become a thunderous force for social change.�

"Hired Hatred" takes a look at parties and their role in the political process in what Redding deems the infiltration of private organizations’ prejudice ideologies into government and even the media. Redding claims that voter abstinence is not his main objective, but merely a possible solution to a partisan government he argues is mutually exclusive to political prejudice, a policy of hatred based solely on party affiliation or ideological position.

Ferrer affirmed his support for gay marriage when he was questioned about his allegiance to Senator Diaz by an employee of his former opponent, Mark Green, at the Greater Voices coalition of lesbian bisexual gay and transgender groups’ mayoral forum in early April. "Whether it’s the extension of domestic partnership rights, or the rights of the transgendered–for me it fits into the same category. You cannot believe in some human rights and not for all," answered Ferrer