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The date is September 23, 1973. In Santiago, Chile, the man who some call “the greatest poet of the 20th century,” Pablo Neruda, is dead in the hospital. According to the logs and reports from doctors, he died after a long-fought battle…

Photo Credit: Dove For the first few weeks of the semester, the Women’s Resource Center was shaved of its hedges. Granted, we were the recipients of a new, glorious porch, for which we are eternally and irrefutably grateful. But,…

This past Halloween weekend, I had an experience that allowed me to genuinely ponder the idea of reverse racism. A friend and I decided to dress up as characters from the 2004 movie White Chicks. We are both black males , and our outfits…

At the high school I went to, I never experienced having cops in the classroom, and I never had a School Resource Officer. But at Spring Valley High School in Richland County, South Carolina, the event that unfolded have left many,…

I am a global warming skeptic. This term conveys how intelligent my position is as skepticism is an intelligent sounding word that implies a level of critical thinking on par with liberal scientists who posit global warming as fact. Those…

The second Million Man March happened two weeks ago in Washington D.C. The first march in 1995 was inspired and led by the Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. The gathering intended to have a million black men declare “their…

Everybody fights. It’s normal. We’re normal. I love him. I love you. We’re a family. This is cover-up. Use it to cover up the bruises and scratches. This is our life.  You’re fine, go to school. I’m fine, it’s okay, you can go. He had too…

The first Republican Presidential debate took place on the 6th of August at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, and aired on over 24 million televisions across the nation. However, aside from presenting their visions for a…