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By Valerie Sanabria | Published by February 17, 2020 During the fourth annual Women’s March in Washington D.C., thousands of people sang “Un violador en tu camino ” or “A Rapist in Your Path” in front of the White House. But the performance that went viral started in Valparaiso, Chile and has become a feminist anthem around the world. The first time I saw a video […]
Read moreBy Salimah McCullough | Published by October 21st, 2019 Fall marks the beginning of sweater weather, football season and everyone’s favorite holiday, Halloween. This year, though, it might be a good idea to think twice before you put on that costume because too many people it’s important to choose a costume that isn’t a form of cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation […]
Read moreBy Valeria Dibrova There is no doubt that the thing we call politics is closely connected with private life and private emotional stances where individual maturity and political maturity are linked. If you have a society where people are personally mature, by definition, they would also be politically mature. But what does maturity mean in this context? It might mean […]
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By Valerie Sanabria | Published by April 15, 2019 As a Latinx immigrant whose dream is to work in the Spanish-Language media, it was shocking to find out that one of our prominent journalistic figures, Jorge Ramos, was detained in Venezuela on Monday, Feb. 25. I found out about what was happening when my mom’s “novelas” were interrupted with breaking […]
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By Breanna Palzer | Published by April 4, 2019 Emotional support animals are animals that someone uses to help them calm down when they are experiencing anxiety or panic. Rather than suffer through their problems, a students can turn to a nice cuddly creature to help calm their nerves. At Kean, however, emotional support animals are not allowed on campus. […]
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By Lena Zhu | Published by March 29, 2019 The Oscars. The Golden Globes. The American Music Awards. All of these events are well known in the industry and are easily the most viewed and watched programs on television. The Oscars, specifically, in 2017, had 32.9 million people viewers, 2016 with 34.4 million, and 2019, the most recent, with 29.9 […]
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By Danielle Junio | Published by Feb. 24, 2019 As a majority of us know, the United States welcomed the New Year with one of the longest government shutdowns in history due to a border wall debate between President Trump and congress. Just after twenty—one days of the shutdown Times magazine noted that it had affected about 800,000 workers and […]
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By Danielle Santiago | Published by Feb. 24, 2019 Of all the things I had imagined for myself at age 23, moving back home was not one of them. I graduated in 2013 from Kingsborough Community College in New York with an associate degree in broadcast technology and was looking forward to furthering my education as a transfer student at […]
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By Joe Hamilton | Published by Feb. 24, 2019 Five nights a week I shave my face, hop in the shower, get cleaned up, slick back my hair, throw on my black polo and black jeans, lace up my shoes and head off to work. I am a drug dealer and people come from all over to gather at my […]
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By Petruce Jean-Charles | Published by Feb. 24, 2019 Imagine this: you identify as non-binary but one day you are interviewed by a journalist and because you look feminine, you are automatically referred to in her report as” she.” The reporter is now unknowingly disrespecting your desire to not be addressed as she, and now an issue of gender pronouns […]
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