Repatriation and Benin Bronzes at Wellesley College and Beyond By Natalie Grant, Caroline Witty, Charnell Jones, and Chloe Theriault The last several years have borne witness to significant upheaval in American museums: movements towards a fairer art world have spurred advances in digitization, accessibility, and the representation of diverse artists and works in prominent […]
By Grace Woodruff, Valerie Tseng, Hannah Anderson On September 11, 2021, 22-year-old travel vlogger Gabby Petito was reported missing by her family following a months-long cross-country road trip, which ended with Petito’s partner Brian Laundrie returning home to Florida without her. Petito’s case was highly publicized, with nightly news shows and Twitter threads alike reporting […]
#Stop Asian Hate By Maeve Galvin, Bella Gilmartin, and Talía Hall Imagine it is March 2020. You are masked up, distanced from everyone, and waiting to board your flight home after being evacuated from college. In the corner of your eye, you see a rather large, sweaty white man slowly come near you. Out of […]
By Kelly Cusack, Lauren Gedney, Sara Lucas, and TylerBell Smith Precipitated by the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers, Black Lives Matter demonstrations took place across the world last June, protesting centuries of anti-Black racism and oppression. Also in June 2020, The Help, a movie adapted […]
By Leigh Pendleton, Maggie Hamilton, Leila Mahdavi, and Ixchel Ramirez It can be shocking to find racism in books we loved and revered as children. While the news of Dr. Seuss’s racist works continues to traverse the internet, many differing opinions are also being voiced about their impact. The majority of Dr. Seuss’s books are filled with lighthearted rhymes […]
By Corn Cook, Maren Frye, Abby Schneider, and Hannah Klein Appropriation of Black culture has long been established, and as time goes on, it’s gotten easier and less discernible to do it. With the rise of TikTok and its 80 million US monthly users, it has become rather simple to co-opt decades-old AAVE terms […]
by Ashley Anderson and Kimberly Joseph In 2018, Idris Elba was (understandably) named People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. He is the third person of color to be selected for this title, with Denzel Washington snagging the title in 1996 and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson getting it twenty years later in 2016. Technically, four men […]
by Kim Joseph and Ashley Anderson Malcolm X once said in his speech “The Ballot or the Bullet,” “Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American.” Here he was mostly speaking about Democratic politicians (who had control of the House at the time) […]
by Claire Cheek, Ellen Nilsson, and Hannah Quiroz After the release of her single “Bodak Yellow” in 2017, upcoming rapper Cardi B earned three number-one singles on the US Billboard Top 100, making her the first female rapper to attain more than one top song on the chart. From her inspirational rise from poverty […]
by Kimberly Joseph and Ashley Anderson In an interview back in 2002 at Stanford University, Anita Hill asked a thought-provoking question: “How do you think certain people would have reacted if I had come forward and been white, blond-haired and blue-eyed?” Just over a decade before, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas […]
