#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 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 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 […]
by Claire Cheek, Ellen Nilsson, and Hannah Quiroz I’m sorry, isn’t this character, Long Duk Dong… like, kinda racist? Not “kind of.” Extremely racist. So why do you like this movie? Why are even asking that question? Hello, Jake Ryan! The movie date scene in Netflix’s new teen movie To All the Boys […]
by Kim Joseph and Ashley Anderson In the days following Nike’s announcement that Colin Kaepernick would be the new face of their “Just Do It” campaign, online sales increased by a startling 31 percent. Almost immediately, the public responded to the Nike ad with cries of “woke-washing,” a phenomena that occurs when corporations use […]
by Cord J. Whitaker This post contains spoilers for Black Panther. I left Black Panther with a smile on my face and thinking one very comforting thought: black people will rule the world—and soon. It’s not that Wakanda exists, nor that vibranium exists, nor even that white people should get their comeuppance. Everybody is […]
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 […]
