By Anthoni Haynes On March 26th, the African Student Union hosted its extravagant and palatial annual fashion Show in the Student Activities Center its first fashion show hosted by ASU since the Covid-19 pandemic. This year’s fashion show was called SORËË: The Awakening. Soree not to be confused with soiree means “arise” in Twi, a West African language. But indeed, a […]
By Isabella Begazo This March’s celebration of National Women’s History Month was filled with plenty of expression, creativity and art all across the United States. In all different forms of artwork, women’s achievements and powerful influence are celebrated to commemorate their contributions in society. New York is filled with diverse creativity in every corner, especially with many artists creating fascinating […]
In this episode, Tunmise, Cam, and Esther talk about inmate slavery in the prison industrial complex and SUNY’s connection and contribution to it. Sources for more detailed information: http://sbpress.com/2020/06/if-stony-b… https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2… https://www.sbstatesman.com/2020/07/1… https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/why-we-… https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/65-perc…
By Anthoni Haynes This past weekend I re-watched the documentary, Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle. The documentary was a four-part mini-series that covers the Reverend Jim Jones, his cult the Peoples’ Temple and the tragedy that is known as the Jonestown Massacre, a mass murder suicide which left over 918 people dead at the temple’s remote settlement in the rainforest […]
We set up an Instagram questionnaire of V-Day music and got back responses from Anthoni, Izzy, Cam and Lauren. Check out the songs they sent in and enjoy!
By Esther Alatishe The long-yet-somehow-fast year of 2021 brought with it many works of film and TV that reflected some very real aspects of life: the mundane, the chaotic, the ridiculous, the ironic, the disappointing, the ambiguous, and the happy. One of those works was the first season of the Amazon Prime TV show Harlem. Don’t get me wrong– the […]
In this first episode of our general club podcast (open to all club members), Esther, Gabi, and Katelynn talk about the feelings of imposter syndrome.
In this video, a group of us discuss the specific issue of Black and Indigenous women accounting for a disproportionate amount of missing persons while also being significantly underreported as missing. Nationally, investigations and news coverage for such women are inadequate compared to their white counterparts, and we discuss this reality and its implications. While the recent case of Gabby […]
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