The 19th Amendment In 1920, the 19th amendment was ratified, prohibiting the United States from denying any American citizen the right to vote based on sex. This included recognizing women’s right to vote. To get here, many women had to contribute to the women’s suffrage movement, but it is important not to forget the contributions […]
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This semester I began my journey towards studying mass communications. As my professor began to discuss the initial presentation of mass media through the radio, I began to think about how mass media presents black people, or rather, black love. I later discussed with a friend about Tyler Perry’s “Madea” films, and the debate around
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Yet someway, somehow it touches us all. How would we define such as thing? The essence of black love is powerful, deep. It is that understanding that you almost can’t explain. The black experience alone, from of course slavery, to racism, poverty, and the fight against it all, encompasses that love. That love for our
I remember typing the words into HU Twitter like a fervent prayer. “Since we are manifesting, I need a queer Black friend group in DC.” For much of my life, I had gone without a sense of community. Yes, I had grown up with a host of Black friends in school or in the Saturday
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
You came into Ms. Ramsey\’s math class A chestnut face full of braces and vibrant colored beads in neat braids you probably sat between your mother\’s legs the night before anxious about your first day of school Since your first day was everyone else\’s 68th I did not understand why I stuttered when I spoke
Mahmoud Khedr, the speaker in the YouTube TEDx Talks publication “How Toxic Positivity Leads to More Suffering,” describes how positivity can be toxic. He explains that he was once a person who unknowingly exhibited toxic positivity. He utilized it to deal with bullying in high school, money problems at home, and carried it into his
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