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Maria Pemberton

How to Fix Your Feminist Girlfriend

Does your girlfriend insist on splitting the bill? Does she refuse to cook dinner when you come home from work?  Are you worried that her plans of going to college and pursuing a career may not be a joke? If…

Promoting Progressive Conversations This Holiday Season

During the holiday season, it is traditional that families gather and spend time together. This season, while it is one of joy and celebration, it is also a time of awkward and difficult confrontations with families of different political ideologies….

Diversity Featured

Encouraging Diversity in Media

In September, Disney released a sneak peek of their live-action rendition of The Little Mermaid, starring actress and singer Halle Bailey. The 90-second promotion showed a visually and musically promising project, yet there was mass controversy over Disney’s choice to…

How Social Media Propelled– And Killed– The BLM Movement

In modern America, we have rarely witnessed mass unification for a specific cause to the degree of the Black Lives Matter Movement. George Floyd, an African American man murdered by a police officer in May of 2020, acted as a…

Featured Student Life

Men’s History Month

Last month we celebrated, what some might consider, the worst time of the year: Women’s History Month. Whatever excuses these feminists may have, it’s quite literally, the single most pointless celebration of the year. Sure you’ve gone through centuries of…

Featured News Op-Ed

Forgotten Women of History

Every year, we celebrate Women’s History Month to honor the accomplishments of women, from everyday individuals to those who have changed the world. Every year, however, the question arises on why we need a month to highlight these achievements, especially…

Op-Ed

Why We Need a Black Female Supreme Court Justice

In January, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement after twenty-eight years of service on the court. Breyer, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, played a significant role in overseeing crucial cases relating to freedom of speech for…

Voter Suppression in 2022

In the last year, voting has suddenly turned into a source of heated partisan debate, as the 2020 election sparked conversation on the accessibility and legality of various voting forms. The highly contested Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act,…