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BLM and P.O.C. in France
Julia Hope | 08/04/2020

The BLM movement has taken magnitude...  we’re able to be well aware that the attacks on people, the attacks on human rights committed in one country or another are well...

Housing Inequality
Elijah Glantz | 08/04/2020

Without inherited wealth, access to opportunity and right to move into thriving, more stable neighborhoods, Black wealth has remained abysmally low. Renting was rarely a choice, rather the only viable...

Riots
Elijah Glantz | 07/13/2020

Rioters, as we are taught, are thugs, hoodlums and criminals. Never, does the mainstream glorify rioters as agents of change whose voices have been systematically removed and suppressed...

Existentialist Plague
Jeanne Briatte | 04/27/2020

In reaction to the current global pandemic, French philosopher Albert Camus' 1947 novel The Plague, timely once more, has suddenly soared to number twenty-five on the French best seller list...

Take 2: COVID-19
Jasmine Ashley Dy | 03/28/2020

Fact and Fiction, Caution and Fear. In times of uncertainty, the lines continue to blur each and every day; in the context of this novel coronavirus, they blur with each...

COVID-19 in Mexico
Maria Lee | 03/25/2020

March 16th, as Mexico faced 82 confirmed and 171 suspected coronavirus cases, the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), walked into his routine morning press conference...

Perceptions & Opinions
Isaiah Lowney-Piazzalunga | 03/08/2020

I remember a brief phase in my primary school education where I would stick a pencil between my thumb and index finger and rock my hand — my fingers crucially...

Greta Thunberg Hero
Lydia Tadross Marks | 01/26/2020

“How dare you?” Greta Thunberg accused global leaders last fall at the United Nations. These three, emphatically-stated words shocked the world as they further solidified her role as a Generation...

Shattering The Glass
Ava Kalinauskas | 01/20/2020

The American dream is for everyone: people of all races and religions, men, women, immigrants, LGBT people, and people with disabilities... We have still not shattered that glass ceiling, but…

New York Schools
Runnie Exuma | 01/15/2020

Specialized high schools are emblematic of the city’s serious need for integration, as the rate of black and brown students present in these “elite” spaces declines dramatically each year...