Opinion

Coates, Baldwin, and the Changing Face of Protest

“I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagues me after James Baldwin died,” wrote the late Toni Morrison. “Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates.” These words appeared as a blurb in support of Coates’ landmark 2015 monograph Between the World and Me. The book, much like Baldwin’s best-known works, contains deep examinations of […]

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Who Cares About Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia Application?

In 2011, one year before the 2012 election, Donald Trump began to sow completely unreasonable doubt in the veracity of President Barack Obama’s listed place of birth, Honolulu, Hawaii. Trump, who had not yet been president but was perhaps planting the seeds of his forthcoming far-right future, would allege for years that Obama’s birth certificate

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Performative Men: Social Media’s Reinforcing of Gender Roles 

Performative Men–men who flaunt their style, or interest in gendered issues as a way to impress women–have started to gain prominence on social media. You may have seen this social media trend that’s popped up in recent months: People making fun of these kinds of men for a seemingly desperate, attention seeking disposition. A caricature

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Trump is right about homeless camps: Make them ‘move out, IMMEDIATELY’

I came across this article on the USA Today Network and want to ask the question; Deep down inside how many D.C. residents agree with this sentiment? We drive by it, through it, and walk around it everyday in all parts of the city. We may even know someone who’s found themselves homeless and on

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The MPD Gets Away With It–Again

On October 23, 2020, Metropolitan Police Department officer Terence Sutton initiated an unauthorized police pursuit that killed Karon Hylton-Brown, a twenty-year-old African American father to an infant. For ten full minutes, Sutton followed Hylton-Brown in an unmarked car at speeds prosecutors called “unreasonable.” Hylton-Brown was riding a rental scooter without a helmet on. The pursuit,

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The National Institutes of Health Decide (Minority) Health Is Overrated

Dr. Charity Oyedeji is a board-certified hematologist—that is, a doctor specializing in the study of blood and blood disorders—and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Oyedeji is the recipient of multiple research grants and co-author of more than 35 peer-reviewed publications. Her employers at Duke Health, the umbrella organization uniting the university’s healthcare and

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