Continuing to Progress in Spite of National Regression

by Mariana Huben The results of this election remind me of one historical event that I learned about in my intermediate school American history course: Custer’s Last Stand. Once glorified as a heroic final battle between George Custer’s troops and the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho people, the occurrence was renamed the Battle of Little …

#BlackLivesMatter

Guest post by Veena Bansal Anyone who has stolen a few glances at the news, scrolled through their Facebook newsfeed, or perused through any other social media outlets recently is, without a doubt, aware of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. I am going to be forthright about my opinion and say that …

“Of 3,200 children’s books published [in the U.S.] in 2013, just 93 were about black people.”

Written by Charity Peets Everything in a child’s environment clues him or her in on prevailing standards. Apartheid of Children’s Literature, an article written by Christopher Myers, highlights the fact that “Of 3,200 children’s books published [in the U.S.] in 2013, just 93 were about black people.” I wasn’t aware of these disappointing numbers, but …

The Verdict:

As an African American Woman, who has African American brothers, cousins, uncles and elders in her life, I have had to face the fact that there is a cost to having dark skin. Our documentary, which is called "The Cost of Darkness," examines how having dark skin impacts people in almost every institution in our …

Something Isn’t Right

Written by Charity Peets  On Saturday August 9, 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by white officer, Darren Wilson in Ferguson, MO., a city known for racial tension between its predominantly black citizenry and white police force. This was a horrifying moment in U.S. history and many citizens of Ferguson …