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 the Census Critics The categories and language used on the census have changed with every iteration—to reflect the new administration’s social usage of racial and ethnic terms. Since race is a social construct, the terms used regarding race and ethnicity are often confusing, biased, and defined differently by different people. The Census Bureau hopes […]
by Rachele Byrd, Shivani Dayal, and Molly Hoyer We would like to believe that our education system is a meritocracy—that those who are most deserving will be offered a spot at the nation’s most prestigious institutions. That ideal, however, has hardly ever been the reality of the matter. Over the centuries, various ethnic groups […]
