America's crisis management has excluded systemic oppression
By Shayler Richmond Following the police killing of over 100 Black people in the first four months of his presidency, and the American COVID-19 death toll reaching almost 600,000 people, President Joe Biden addressed…
Black people’s distrust in the COVID-19 vaccine stems from racism
By Antonio Cooper Black people’s reasoning for not trusting the COVID-19 vaccine is rooted in the medical field’s history of racism and past experimentation on Black people. Historically Black people have been subjected to…
Food deserts continue to put Black communities at-risk
By Antonio Cooper Food deserts disproportionately deteriorate the health of Black communities due to the deficiencies in access to affordable healthy food options caused by this layered inequality.
A Brief History of Black Luxury Fashion: Clothing
by Treonna Turner To put a definitive timeline together to discuss the history of Black fashion or Black luxury fashion is almost as complex as it is to relay the history of the world,…
Mass shootings are an American issue
By Dalila Da Silva Lopes For the second time in less than a week, America has experienced another gunman’s deadly rampage. Mass killings are defined as four or more dead, not including the…
Georgia’s Black Congresswoman confronts voter suppression
By Shayler Richmond Georgia State Representative Park Cannon is a Black Congresswoman whose liberties were seized by authorities in Georgia’s State Building, Mar. 2021, her seemingly ill-deserved arrest is the unjust reality of how…
Men’s space in the body positivity movement
By Antonio Cooper Within the rising acceptance of the body positivity movement, men have gone unnoticed. The body positivity movement is defined as a social movement created to empower individuals no matter their physical…
Seven killed in Atlanta shooting, including six Asians
By Dalila Da Silva Lopes Shootings at three separate massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia left eight people dead on Tuesday, Mar. 16, 2021.
Time's up on sexual assault and the Golden Globes' lack of representation
By Antonio Cooper The Golden Globes have been exposed as a white-dominated institution that occasionally elects to treat Black art as charity and Black representation as optional.
