As the United States celebrates National Arab American Heritage Month this April, the community is calling for a long-overdue shift in how they are portrayed in popular culture.
You left the theater feeling righteous, watching a movie about a corrupt mega-corporation getting humiliated, or perhaps you watched a movie about a group of debt-ridden underdogs taking a stand against a sadistic elite.
On a random afternoon at Henry Ford College, a student walks out of class feeling proud. They studied, they understood the material, and for once, things made sense.
Many college students spend their mornings and evenings looking through social media. Whether on Instagram, TikTok, or Snapchat, timelines can sometimes be filled with selective highlights of success, relationships, and lifestyle successes.
For many, hair is simply an aesthetic choice, but within the Afrikan diaspora, it represents a complex intersection of ancestral memory, systemic resistance, and identity.
George Orwell cleverly kept his pieces under a pen name. Orwell’s real name had in fact been Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was a British writer and journalist, and a survivor of colonial rule, poverty, and war.
