Kelly Ho | Staff Writer Hosted by the Geek Culture Club, a mysterious game night was held on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Featuring a mysterious game that later turned out to be a Fate/Grand Order “History Test.” Fate/Grand Order is a mobile video game that uses folklore and history to make its various characters. The game […]
Heidi Cuevas | Opinion Director Every March, we have the chance to learn about women, their struggles and how we can all work together to make a difference. Despite the holidays and recognition, it feels like not much has changed. Women’s History Month is supposed to be dedicated to honoring historical women while also recognizing […]
Staff Writer | Hennessy Sepulveda The Black Student Union, Office of Social Justice and Inclusion and the Martin Luther King committee partnered up for the 33rd annual Commemorative Dinner to honor the legacy of civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday night at the Graham Center. Guests were encouraged to wear shades […]
Kaysa Suzana | Assistant Entertainment Director The civil-rights documentary series “Eyes on the Prize” had its Season 2, Episode 1 featured for the Black Revolutionary Study this Nov. 28. Part of the second film examination, the film and discussion series Black Revolutionary Studies showcases the late 60’s and the end of the civil rights movement. […]
Salma Ibrahim | Contributing Writer On Nov. 30, addressing the pressing issues of mass incarceration and the ongoing fight against it in Cook County Jail, Assistant Professor Dr. Melanie Newport from the University of Connecticut delivered a compelling keynote speech at the Graham Center as part of the Department of History’s Atlantic Colloquium speaker series. […]
Conor Moore and Kaysea Suzana | PantherNOW Staff Gobble until you wobble, Panthers, and keep the gravy train rolling, because Thanksgiving and Black Friday, two holidays that will fill your belly as much as they will empty your wallet, are here in full force this coming season. The origins of Thanksgiving as a holiday trace […]
Angela Alvarez | Staff Writer Drawing is as old as humankind, yet an underrated one when compared to other arts in the Middle Ages. The Frost Art Museum exhibition “Allegories for Learning” demonstrates how a drawing reflects both its place of creation and the artist’s methods. For example, the technical elements of the piece, like […]
Thomas Marin/Staff Writer “History Through Gaming” will be the first course at FIU focused on the relationship between history and video games. Students will learn while analyzing and engaging with multiple types of video games. Proposed and designed by Dr. Lindsay Maxwell, a scholar who specializes in religious and cultural history, this course will be […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer If you were to walk into a grocery store today in the United States and buy bananas, chances are that those bananas have an oval blue sticker with the Chiquita logo plastered on it. Most consumers, even the most environmentally and socially conscious, might find it at a surface level impossible to […]
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 […]
Nathen Nayor/Staff Writer Valentine’s Day isn’t for everyone, so why not celebrate the holiday that precedes it? The ancient Roman holiday of Lupercalia was nothing like the holiday we now celebrate on February 14. It was in fact a rather gory and sexual festival intended to ward off evil spirits. Taking place from the 13th […]
Hayley Serpa/Staff Writer In 1492, Christopher Columbus’ fateful voyage marked an endless stream of cultural, social and economic diffusion between the “Old World” of the East and the “New Western World”—two landmasses that were previously unaware of each other’s existence. Yet, cultural and socioeconomic structures were not the only things transferred during the early 16th-century […]
