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June 26, 2017By Ariel Zedric
With famous YouTubers like David Dobrik hopping on the Podcast wagon, it’s no doubt they are becoming more and more popular; however, it’s important to find the best Podcasts out there. Not only are there comedic episodes, but there are several Podcasts that are both enlightening and entertaining that will leave you wanting more. 1.
June 25, 2017By Celia Lipton
In today’s day and age, a lot of antisemitism still exists; some people just don’t like to recognize it. There are little bits of microaggressions towards Jews that people don’t talk about or don’t realize they’re doing. This is a poem about my personal experience with these microaggressions. Warning: slur(s) ahead For the past
June 14, 2017By Vamika Sinha
I sometimes think the YouTube community is a bit like a high school. The ‘cool kids’ or the most popular/viewed YouTubers, check a certain number of boxes — you have the girls who post-aesthetic fashion/makeup videos, do monthly Q&A’s about their lives and often post hauls where they hold (usually) overpriced clothing and makeup to
June 13, 2017By Ezinne Anozie
In an interview during his podcast Pod Save the People, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson chatted with singer Katy Perry. During the interview, Perry brought up her problematic history of appropriating both Black and Asian cultures in past performances and music videos. https://twitter.com/drugproblem/status/873738692661313536 Most of Perry’s cultural appropriation occurred a few years back, the
June 10, 2017By Celia Lipton
WARNING: Spoilers ahead Credit to all photos goes to NRK and the creators of SKAM. SKAM, which translates to SHAME, is a multi-media television show produced by NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Company) about the lives of teenagers living in Oslo, Norway. There are four seasons of the show, each through the perspective of different main characters
June 7, 2017By Mariah Flores
Imagine volunteering for an “experiment.” You are a poor college student who could use the 15 dollars per day, for 1-2 weeks, that is being offered. The only stipulation is that you need to be male and a student of Stanford University. These were the exact requirements for the 24 men who participated in one
June 4, 2017By Rayan Ramadan
Ariana Grande’s One Love Manchester Concert not only raised the morale of so many broken people, but it also raised approximately $9 million (or £7 million) for the victims of the attack before the concert even finished. This money will be used for the “We Love Manchester Emergency Fund and the British Red Cross and it
May 29, 2017By Lindsay Debrosse
I wrote this poem two years after the death of Micheal Brown. With the mass media’s coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the unrest happening in Ferguson, Missouri, I felt lost. I started to forget why we were fighting in the first place. All I saw were my people looting and destroying mom
May 28, 2017By Alyssa Zavattero
The hit TV show ‘Law & Order SVU’ just wrapped up its 20th season with an episode that brought issues of immigration and Islamophobia in a two hour season finale. The show stars decorated and deeply compassionate detective, and now lieutenant, Olivia Benson played by Mariska Hargitay, and it teaches (receptive) viewers about issues of consent
May 27, 2017By Erika Liberati
“My heart, prayers and deepest condolences are with the victims of the Manchester Attack and their loved ones,” Ariana Grande writes in a letter posted to her Twitter account. Four days after the horrific events that unfolded at Manchester Arena, Grande has finally spoken out. She was photographed arriving in Boca Raton the day following
May 23, 2017By Della Waldrop
13th, the Oscar-nominated film by Ava DuVernay, is no doubt one of the most exposing and riveting documentaries about the history of racial inequality in the United States. However, DuVernay focuses her film on the Prison Industrial Complex, and the mass incarceration of African-Americans seen in the United States prison system. The many speakers in the film offer valuable,
May 15, 2017By Sophia Becerril
As we all know the new summer blockbuster film Wonder Woman is due to play near a theater near you June 2nd,2017. As the fourth entry of the DC cinematic universe and the first DC movie led by a female of this decade, the box office projections are coming in at $65 million for domestic