Saturday, April 27, 2024
Photo Courtesy of Jamelle Bouie, Flickr Creative Commons Last week Donald Trump managed to shift the national conversation from the three coordinated bombings that occurred in Belgium to the War on Women. Besides the fact that the world was still feeling the effects of the ISIS attacks in Brussels, Trump […]
Photo courtesy of Carolyn Herring During the State of the College Address on Jan. 27, President Peter Mercer welcomed Barbara Harmon-Francis as the new Educational Opportunity Fund, or EOF, director. Harmon-Francis joined the Ramapo staff three weeks ago and looks forward to meeting all Ramapo students. “I’ve met so many […]
Photo Courtesy of Infrogmation, Wikipedia Sometimes the scariest thing about the upcoming holiday on Saturday is the rampant cultural appropriation and racism that can occur on Halloween. While it is true that many people innocently buy Halloween costumes that promote some form of cultural appropriation, the buying and wearing […]
Photo courtesy of United States Department of State Last week’s “SNL” spoof of the Democratic debate featuring Bernie Sanders (Larry David), Jim Webb (Alec Baldwin) and Hillary Clinton (Kate McKinnon), has been the talk of all things political in social media. And while there was much to admire about the […]
The campus recently observed Violence Awareness Week and saw many events geared toward educating the community about the issue of sexual violence on campus. Some events included a recent talk by Yolo Akili Robinson, a gay black man who spoke on trauma and intimate partner violence in LGBTQ communities, the […]
Photo courtesy of US Department of State, Wikipedia Hillary Clinton launched a second presidential bid for the White House on Sunday in a video released online. Unlike eight years ago, she made no mention of her colorful resumé in Washington, or about being the nation’s first female president. In fact, Clinton […]
Photo Courtesy of Robert Couse, Flickr Creative Commons A growing food movement exists that urges people in developed countries to support sustainable eating by foregoing greasy cheeseburgers and eating fresh produce at local family farms instead, but how often do we look at the intersection of food, race and class […]
Photo courtesy of Andrew Goidell, Wikimedia Commons After mainstream media caught wind of two viral videos in which fraternity members chanted a racist song last week, the University of Oklahoma expelled Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, the students identified as having initiated the chanting, on Tuesday. The videos were recorded on […]
Photo Courtesy of Josh Goldberg, Wikimedia Kate Brown, former secretary of state, made inaugural history after becoming the nation’s first openly bisexual governor on Feb. 18, following the resignation of Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber in the aftermath of an influence-peddling scandal involving his fiancée. While Kitzhaber sits under investigation by […]
Photo courtesy of Calamity_Sal, Flickr Creative Commons A grand jury indicted the man who fatally shot three Muslim students over an alleged parking dispute in Chapel Hill, N.C. on Feb. 17, initiating a national conversation on religion and race. Craig Hicks, 46, is the perpetrator of the heinous crime and […]
