Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Respectability politics may not be something that most people are familiar with or understand, but Tanadjza Robinson-McCray and Miranda Garcia want to change that, especially for students of color on Ramapo’s campus. Robinson-McCray, the Educational Opportunity Fund student development specialist, and Garcia, the graduate assistant for the Cahill Career Development […]
Photo Courtesy of Headway, Unsplash With the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement coming to the forefront of news and media in the summer of 2020, there have been fiery conversations pertaining to the educational system and how discussing racism in the classroom should be approached. Critical Race […]
Photo courtesy of Ekaterina Bolovtsova, Pexels. On Aug. 25, 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse was the cause of a fatal shooting during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wis.. He was at the demonstration with an AR-15 in his hands, claiming it was his job to protect a car dealership within proximity […]
Photo courtesy of Fair Use, Wikipedia Netflix is commonly known for pumping out coming-of-age stories that can sometimes be unrelatable and unrealistic. They often barely scrape the surface of what it means to be a teenager in high school in the modern century. However, “Grand Army” gets it right. […]
A screenshot of an online Change petition launched by a Ramapo student On Wednesday night, a Ramapo College student accessed an official college listserv without authorization to send an email asking undergraduates to sign a petition for a partial tuition reimbursement. While more than 100 students replied to the email […]
Photo courtesy of DVSROSS, Flickr The internet’s on-and-off-again favorite beauty guru and YouTuber Jeffree Star has once again stirred up drama on the internet following the promotional photos for his recently released eyeshadow palette named “Blood Lust.” The photo in question pictures Star wearing a purple wig with dreadlocks and […]
Photo courtesy of NBC Television Kate Smith, a famous singer who was best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America,” had her statue removed by the Philadelphia Flyers after racist lyrics were found in some of her songs. Smith passed away in 1986 and was a respected […]
Photo courtesy of Becoming Black Again, Wikipedia In Bahia, Brazil, racism is a prevalent issue despite the majority of the population being black. In the presentation of her research, “Becoming Black Again,” Adrielle Matos explores the effects of this racism on the psychology of black college students. Historically, black students […]
Photo courtesy of Kremlin.ru, Wikipedia On a recent segment of the “Today” show, Megyn Kelly’s comments regarding the use of blackface during Halloween resulted in her future at NBC being on the line. “Back when I was a kid, it was okay as long as you were dressing as a […]
Photo courtesy of Alyssa Rabinowitz Researchers from Seton Hall University Law School visited Ramapo last Thursday to present their findings on racial profiling at traffic stops in Bloomfield, New Jersey. Aside from discussing these findings, the three speakers shared their personal experiences with police as black men while on the […]
