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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.​

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”.

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.

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.

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.

Verdict: Guilty on all 3 counts.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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...

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