Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer No matter our political beliefs it’s always important to go out and vote, so why was there a low turnout for the SGA elections? This low student turnout diminishes the chance of our voices being heard in the student government. In the 2024-2025 Student Government Association elections, only 3,078 students […]
Xavier Richardson/Guest Columnist With actor Billy Porter’s win at the Emmys on Sunday, Sep. 22, it’s clear that LGBT representation on American television has come a long way. “Pose,” which Porter stars in, has garnered acclaim for its acting, writing and ballroom culture focus. But its main draw, for many, wasn’t that “Pose” focused on […]
Gabriella Pinos/ Staff Writer One evening in late January, Jussie Smollett, a black and openly gay actor on the TV show “Empire,” was confronted by two men on his way home. The men, according to Smollett, hurled racial and homophobic slurs at him, beat him, and even put a rope around his neck. As police […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer For a long time, African Americans were underrepresented in movies and television shows across the board. Given typical small roles, black actors and actresses never consistently had the chance to showcase their talent. It was a good movie maybe once a year. Black people are finally being portrayed as “high status” […]
by Ursula Muñoz Schaefer/ Staff Writer I still remember the uproar when the Ava DuVernay-directed masterpiece Selma received no acting or directing nods from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (also known as the Oscars), in 2015. Though the blistering Twitter movement #OscarsSoWhite took off then, it was what happened the following year that […]
Brea Jones/Staff Writer For decades, one huge problem has plagued the African American community and has yet to be resolved: colorism. To give some context, colorism is when people within one race discriminate each other based on the shade of a person’s skin. The lighter your skin color is, the more desirable and beautiful you […]
Rina Factor/Contributing Writer Our first encounter with the concept of beauty starts when we are very young. For me, I realized how my perception of beauty was being shaped, when I asked my mother to buy me a Barbie doll during my elementary school years. Despite the fact that I am half-Asian and shared features […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Contributing Writer On Jan. 1, 2018, VH1 premiered their fourth installment of their “Love and Hip Hop” franchise and for South Floridians, this one is the most exciting since it was filmed right in our own backyard. “Love and Hip Hop: Miami” follows the same formula of other shows in the “Love” […]
Maytinee Kramer/ Opinion Director When Diana Huey, a Seattle-based Japanese-American actor and singer, accepted the role of Ariel in the touring musical production of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” some weren’t pleased. Not because of her talent or skills, but because of her ethnicity. Angry Disney fans say the production should have cast a white woman […]
