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 written by its Black citizens. Even though the U.S. government has established a month-long holiday to recognize the contributions of Black people to the country, this in no way corrects […]
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 sex with his son and nephew who were underaged at the time. Boosie claimed that the motivation behind this was to make sure his child didn’t become gay. He was […]
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 community. Since that moment, the successes have only multiplied with each passing year. Unfortunately, some people believe that the celebration of Black History Month hurts race relations and is even […]
Rina Factor/ Contributing Writer Maya Angelou is someone I find very admirable — her illustrious career as a writer has rendered her extremely memorable. Not only was her famous novel, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” a fitting title for a story that illustrates how she overcome racism and trauma through literature, she describes […]
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 that, in a play of editing, depicted a black woman removing her shirt to reveal a white woman underneath, which some took as Dove suggesting that “black” was synonymous with […]
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 criticism of U.S. society’s custom of focusing on the month of February to remember the great contributions of African-Americans at home and abroad. He is right. This habit is a […]
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 come in society. Because of this, it is very tragic that school systems are failing to educate student on all that has happened throughout history. Only getting one month to […]
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 one hand, they bring to light the position and the perspective one speaks from, while on the other, they imply a certain kind of social responsibility. When I look at […]
Peter Holland, Jr. // Staff Writer Birmingham was the equivalent of the civil rights struggle for African Americans going back to the 1950s and ‘60s, from the injustices of segregation and senseless violence from the city’s authorities to the incarceration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sophomore point guard of the women’s basketball team and […]
