Monica Ortiz, Contributing Writer
June 8, 2020
Growing up, I always got annoyed when people called me white. In elementary school, I didn’t understand the difference between nationality versus ethnicity versus race. My grandmother was a Cuban immigrant and my father was Pue...
Monica Sarmiento, Contributing Writer
June 4, 2020
Instead of posting a black square, I spent some time this afternoon compiling a list of bail funds, mutal aid funds, memorials, and other donation pages I was able to find and verify. This list is in no way comprehensive but its...
Keion-Mehki Jackson, Contributing Writer
April 18, 2020
“In the “lynching era,” between 1880 to 1940, white Christians lynched nearly five thousand black men and women in a manner with obvious echoes of the Roman crucifixion of Jesus. Yet these “Christians” did not see the...
Rebecca Richardson, Contributing Writer
April 17, 2020
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Nevin Perkins Op-Ed Editor
February 19, 2020
Diana Sanchez, Contributing Writer
February 10, 2020
As an educator I have plenty to worry about on a day-to-day basis. I need to have papers and pencils ready for my students, and my lesson plans must be up to date. I shouldn't have to fear for my safety, as well as the safety o...
December 12, 2019
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Nevin Perkins, Contributing Writer
April 23, 2019
On the Sunday evening just before term resumed from Spring Recess, I along with the rest of NJCU’s Orientation Leadership returned from an inspiring conference at Virginia Tech. Some of the students and myself needed to use the ba...
Nevin Perkins, Contributing Writer
February 22, 2019
Initially stemming from historian Carter G. Woodson’s Negro History Week in 1926, Black History Month was officially recognized 50 years later by President Gerald Ford. The month was to be an official act of recognition tow...
