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Learn about relevant issues around racial inequity with well-sourced articles written by our writing team.



War and Racism: Discrimination at Ukraine’s Borderlands



by Francesca Marquez





As millions of Ukrainians flee to escape a Russian invasion of their homeland, not all are welcomed into neighboring countries as easily as their white counterparts.


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Addressing the ever-present racial disparities in maternal health



by Molly Dye





In the United States, Black women face poor maternal health outcomes that are disproportionately higher than other groups of women.


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Greg Abbott's Attack on Trans Youth’s Families



by Sabine Waldeck





On February 22nd, Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot wrote a letter to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. In the letter he wrote that providing gender confirming treatments for transgender kids should be considered “child abuse” under current Texas state law.


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A Genocidal Olympiad: China’s Present-Day Human Rights Abuses



by Francesca Marquez





The Olympic cauldron has been lit and the Beijing Games have begun in what is the world’s 24th Winter Olympiad. While well over 2,000 athletes from 91 nations participate in this year’s games, they do so in a country accused of committing crimes against humanity and even genocide.


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Racial Bias in artificial intelligence



by Molly Dye





One of the biggest issues that perpetuates the use of artificial intelligence pertains to racial and economic inequities and biases that are inherent to AI.


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Betty White Proved “Being From a Different Generation” Is Not an Excuse



by Sabine Waldeck





Betty White sadly passed away on December 31, 2021. The legacy that White leaves behind is not only one of outstanding acting but also of allyship to the LGBTQ+ community.


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Action on the Federal Level: When is the Climate Crisis going to be Taken Seriously?



by Faith Bugenhagen





The month of December is usually marked with festivities as individuals gear up for the holiday season, however the beginning of this December saw tragedy.


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Abortion in Federal and State Law: How New Decisions Will Impact Women Across the Country



by Molly Dye





On Friday, December 10th, the Supreme Court issued a decision that abortion providers had the autonomy to challenge the Texas law banning most abortions after six weeks into conception.


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I Saw Harry Kissing Santa



by Sabine Waldeck





With Christmas soon approaching the holiday commercials have begun rolling out. However, one specific advertisement from the Norwegian Postal Service got homophobic people in a frenzy.


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The Issue in Georgia’s Gerrymandering: What States need to Be Aware Of



by Faith Bugenhagen





Georgia, a deep southern state, is in the process of redrawing their congressional district lines, what could go wrong?


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The (Decolonized) Thanksgiving Edition: Addressing Native Americans’ Food Insecurity



by Francesca Marquez





Pre-colonization, Native Americans prepared and enjoyed a diverse array of foods specific to their geographic location.


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World Leaders Continue to Disappoint When It Comes to Environmental Goals



by Molly Dye





Last month, the Group of Twenty (G20), an intergovernmental forum that discusses the global economy, climate change, financial responsibility, and more met in Rome, Italy. The environment was the primary topic of discussion, as a precursor to the U.N.’s climate summit known as COP26.


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Critical Race Theory Should Be Taught in Schools



by Sabine Waldeck





CRT is the teaching that “race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.”


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New texas bills are threatening gender identity expression and voting rights



by Molly Dye





The Texas law preventing women from seeking an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy gained popular media attention last month, but not much attention has been drawn to other recent Texas bills that threaten gender identity and voting rights.


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An Expanding Cavity: Racial Disparities in the U.S. Education System



by Francesca Marquez





Undoubtedly, progress has been made towards reforming education inequality over the past few decades, yet economically disadvantaged students and English learners still fare far worse among subgroups of U.S. students.


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The Haitian Migrant Crisis



by Faith Bugenhagen





These migrants are coming from multiple different Latin American countries. These countries have served as their makeshift homes, where they prepped to reach their final destination: The United States.


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The Crisis in Cuba Has Nothing to Do With Your Political Agenda



by Sabine Waldeck





Cuban citizens have been protesting against the shortage of food and medicine they have been experiencing since July 11th.


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Texas’s Byzantine System: How the New Abortion Law will Devastate Communities of Color



by Francesca Marquez





A new Texas law, passed in May, but only recently took effect in the state, bans all abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.


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The impact of environmental injustice on Indigenous populations in the United States



by Molly Dye





Since the early days of colonialism, environmental injustice has strongly impacted indigenous communities across the world.


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Black Feminism as a Feminism for All



by Emily Lang





While the broad outreach of feminism defines its mission as the advocacy for all women, not all women are included in feminism.


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Considering the Vaccine Disparity Within the BIPOC Community



by Jess Ferguson





People do not just resist vaccines because of information they read online.


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Obesity is not an Epidemic, Fat-Phobia is



by Lauren Dubravec





It's time to talk about the discrimination that even the most "woke" among us are participating in.


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Racism in sports: the olympics



by Molly Dye





Though this year’s Olympics had not yet started when the incident occured, it is not the first time that racism has been discussed as a problem at the Olympic Games.


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Canadian Sin: Canada’s Multigenerational Oppression of Aboriginal Communities Comes to a Head



by Francesca Marquez





In their native, Canadian lands, generations upon generations of aboriginals have been oppressed if not downright massacred throughout the course of their nation’s history.


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The problem with rainbow capitalism



by Sabine Waldeck





A popular topic this Pride Month was rainbow capitalism. It is when companies market themselves with rainbow colors to seem like they are an ally to the LGBTQ+ community, but are only doing so to look good, not to do any good.


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How to recognize and stop racial gaslighting



by Jess Ferguson





One form of gaslighting pertains to race. Therapist Taylor Nolan told Cosmopolitan that racial gaslighting “is specific to that person's experience as a BIPOC person [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color]." The article goes on to say that racial gaslighting recasts BIPOC individuals as “unreliable narrators of their own lives.”


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When should children learn about racism?



by Katherine Ramsey





Regardless of whether adults avoid the conversation of race with their children, children make observations and judgements based on skin color early in their development.


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The increasing violence against black transgender women



by Molly Dye





As this year's pride month continues to celebrate and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, there is one group that continuously faces high rates of discrimination, violence, and fatalities. Each year, black transgender women face increased numbers of hate crimes.


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4 Ways to Celebrate Juneteenth if you are not Part of the Black Community



by Lauren Dubravec





Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, is the celebration of June 19th, 1865, the day when news of emancipation finally reached Galveston, Texas, ending slavery in the US.​


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AAVE IS NOT YOUR TREND



by Sabine Waldeck





What is commonly referred to as ‘internet slang’ is just appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). If you are not aware of what AAVE is, it is “a variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of American English, most commonly spoken today by urban working-class and largely bi-dialectal middle-class African Americans”.


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TEXAS BILL ATTACKING "CRITICAL RACE THEORY" PASSES IN SENATE



by Audrey McGovern





On Saturday, May 22, 2021 the Texas State Senate approved a bill that aims to ban the teaching of “critical race theory” in public and open-enrollment charter schools.


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THE DEEP-ROOTED PROBLEM BEHIND MOCKING NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS



by Jess Ferguson





English is, without a doubt, a difficult language to learn. I’ve seen countless native speakers use improper grammar or misuse “their/there,” and there are so many different rules and exceptions to rules, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of them all.


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tHE DEREK CHAUVIN VERDICT: HOW DO WE RECKON WITH POLICE VIOLENCE NOW? (2/2)



by Molly Dye





While the Derek Chauvin criminal trial drew to a close with the verdict that many did not expect, there remains much to be done to fight towards racial justice and eliminate police violence.


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ACCOUNTABILITY? YES. JUSTICE? NO. (1/2)



by Megan Kangas





Verdict: Guilty on all 3 counts.


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ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH



by Lauren Dubravec





It ‘s Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and we need to talk about American imperialism in Hawaii.


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RACISM IN THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: HOW HISTORY IMPACTS VACCINE DISTRUST



by Molly Dye





As COVID-19 vaccine rollout develops in the United States, it is important to understand why the Black community remains hesitant about vaccination at higher rates than other groups.


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SMALL AAPI OWNED BUSINESSES TO SUPPORT



by Sabine Waldeck





As the amount of Instagram stories being posted about Asian hate come and go, now is not the time to pat yourself on the back and move on. It is time to support the AAPI community, and one way of doing so is to shop small AAPI businesses.


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THE CASE OF ARMY LIEUTENANT CARSON NAZARIO



by Audrey McGovern





On December 5, 2020, at 6:30 p.m., Army Lieutenant Carson Nazario was driving home on the U.S. 460 interstate when he was stopped by Windsor, Virginia police officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker.


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THE LINE BETWEEN ATHLETICISM AND ACTIVISM



by Jess Ferguson





About 34.5 percent of Americans report that they watch sports less now as a result of the associated sociopolitical messages, a YouGov/Yahoo News Poll from March found.


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U.S. HISTORY OF FORCED STERILIZATION OF WOMEN OF COLOR



by Katherine Ramsey





In the United States, forced sterilizations have remained a persistent problem, especially among BIPOC communities.


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tHE “HARAJUKU GIRL” AND THE FETISHIZATION OF ASIAN WOMEN



by Lauren Dubravec





The cutesy yet hypersexualized, exotic yet non-threatening “Harajuku Girl'' archetype was introduced to American mainstream media in Gwen Stefani’s 2004 album, Love. Angel. Music. Baby.


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bLACK LESBIAN COMMUNITIES AND THE STEREOTYPES THAT THEY FACE



by Megan Kangas





The Black Lesbian Community has historically suffered harsh stereotyping, being labeled as dangerous and vicious.


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THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF AAVE



by Audrey McGovern





African American Vernacular English (AAVE), or Ebonics, is a variety of English with its own unique linguistic, grammatical, and accent features spoken by Black English speakers in the United States and Canada.


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THE RISE OF DISCRIMINATION TOWARD ASIAN-AMERICANS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC



by Megan Kangas





Over the past year, Asian-American discrimination has increased significantly, largely due to the arrival of COVID-19 in the U.S.


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MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES ARE DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED BY TEXAS POWER CRISIS



by Jess Ferguson





As Texas and other southern states begin dealing with the aftermath of this power crisis, hopefully, they will consider the disproportionate impacts in their planning for future disasters, and be more accessible to those most affected.


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nEW LETTER REVEALS FBI INVOLVEMENT IN MALCOLM X'S ASSASSINATION



by Sabine Waldeck





This past Sunday, February 21st, marked the 56th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.


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white washing in the film industry



by Katherine Ramsey





Since the early 1900s, whitewashing in films has been a prevalent problem.


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BLACK WOMEN AND EMOTIONAL LABOR: A HISTORY



by Lauren Dubravec





Not only did she found and maintain our Black Student Union, but she was also the designated “liaison” between the Black students and the predominantly white student population and faculty.


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Black lives and the death penalty



by Audrey McGovern





According to the ACLU, “the color of a defendant and victim's skin plays a crucial and unacceptable role in deciding who receives the death penalty in America. People of color have accounted for a disproportionate 43% of total executions since 1976 and 55% of those currently awaiting execution.”


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PERFORMATIVE ACTIVISM: HOW IS IT HARMFUL?



by Gia Orsino





The expedience that social media affords our activist efforts have been good in many ways, but it has also led us into an era of performative activism, that is, claiming your status as an activist for clout.


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BIPOC Film and TV Standouts



by Jess Ferguson





To say award shows have missed the mark on diversity is an understatement. Every year, shows like the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes fail to recognize countless BIPOC actors and creators who produce amazing works.


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TikTok is Silencing Black Voices



by Sabine Waldeck





TikTok has been taking over the social media realm for Millennials and Gen Zers this past year. With its gaining popularity, however, there are sure to be blips...


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From breaking chains to breaking the cycle



by Katherine Ramsey





Prison systems have become a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, allowing companies to source products from the free labor provided by prison inmates.


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