Taking a Look at the Erasure of Black History
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer Every February during Black History Month, the United States claims to celebrate and remember the parts of its history that have been…
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer Every February during Black History Month, the United States claims to celebrate and remember the parts of its history that have been…
Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer On May 11, American rapper Boosie Badazz held an Instagram Live session where he admitted to paying adult women to have oral…
Jacquelyn Hurtado/ Staff Writer Ninety-one years ago in 1926, a historian named Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” to celebrate the successes of the black…
Rina Factor/ Contributing Writer Maya Angelou is someone I find very admirable — her illustrious career as a writer has rendered her extremely memorable. Not…
Dove and H&M are just a couple of the brands facing backlash for being racially insensitive, given their questionable recent advertisements. Dove featured an ad…
Eduardo Alvarez/ Contributing Writer Beloved actor Morgan Freeman has said that “Black History is American History.” He spoke these words live on 60 Minutes in…
Brea Jones/ Contributing Writer Black History Month is the time to honor and celebrate all the accomplishments of African Americans and how far we have…
Clara Barros/ Contributing Writer “I am a white person.” The apparent simplicity of those five words is misleading. Their importance is, in fact, colossal. On…
Peter Holland, Jr. // Staff Writer Birmingham was the equivalent of the civil rights struggle for African Americans going back to the 1950s and ‘60s,…
This Black History Month has been more empowering than those in recent years; The Black Panther Movement will celebrate its 50th anniversary this October and Beyoncé’s performance of her new single “Formation,” a song considered to be a black power anthem, rocked the Super Bowl halftime show.