Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer It is said that those closest to you can inflict the most pain and suffering. Oluwatoyin Salau’s tragic death reminds us of this. Oluwatoyin “Toyin” Salau was a 19-year-old Nigerian-American activist who was heavily involved in the George Floyd protests. She was also one of the few people advocating for Tony McDade, […]
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 […]
Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer There’s this strange phrase that has haunted me for most of my life, a strange phrase that seems to have lingered in the black community for a long time now. “You act white.” I heard this throughout my childhood and adolescence. I heard it so much that I would question my own […]
Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer The Grammy-nominated Los Angeles rapper, Nipsey Hussle died on Sunday, March 31. He was shot multiple times outside of the Marathon Clothing store that he owned. The community mourns his passing as Nipsey Hussle was influential in the South Los Angeles area. Hussle was involved in numerous community projects. He invested […]
Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer Spring has blossomed to life three weeks into the semester with the Student Programming Council’s fabulous event. On Jan. 25, SPC hosted the second annual Drag Brunch in the Graham Center ballrooms, where you could enjoy a rather late breakfast and watch the performances of famous drag queens like Vanessa Vanjie Mateo […]
Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer Winter is now closer than its ever been. On Sunday, April 14, the eighth and final season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” will premiere, and with the final season, months away plenty of questions of what will happen and how the show will end are arising. With several fan theories circulating online, […]
Rashawn Raysor/Contributing Writer FIU Theatre’s Fall season opens with the fantastical Latin American tale, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings.” The play, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, is an adaptation of a short story by the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. It focuses on an angel that falls in the middle […]
Rashawn Raysor/Contributing Writer A secluded island, luxury style living for students and a tight-knit community. These are just a sample of the phrases that come to the mind of Harrell Taylor, an resident assistant at Bayview Housing on Biscayne Bay Campus, when he thinks about the Bayview community. A graduate student studying public administration […]
