Category: Viewpoints

“The Boondocks” second episode of its first season titled “The Trial of Robert Kelly” cleverly and with its usual dip of satire explored R. Kelly’s trial of him peeing on an underage girl. The episode shows how the black community stood with blind loyalty for a man whose voice has bounced off the walls of…

I’ve always struggled to stand up for myself. My classmates would pick on me and boys would do things that made me uncomfortable. Sometimes they would grab me or follow me around, and I’d pretend I didn’t care. It didn’t affect me because I was strong. Things like this didn’t happen to someone like me.…

If you’re like me, the second after Thanksgiving ends a switch gets pulled. A switch that plays Christmas music even when you’re not actually listening to Christmas music. Sometimes you hear obscure songs like Gayla Peeve’s “I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas,” or Bing Crosby’s rendition of “Good King Wenceslas,” but lately the songs in…

One thing I have noticed on  campus is that some people go by two different names alternatively. As I used to go by my “picked up” English name, “Grace,” during my first year here and then reclaimed my Korean name as the one I chose to be called, I sincerely have gone through the irritation…

Aside from the illegality of criminalizing homelessness, it is deeply immoral, employs dangerous fear rhetoric and shows a great lack of sympathy. There is a crucial discussion about homelessness going on now in Wayne County, and all students should be paying attention to it, if not actively engaging with it. At 7:30 p.m. on Monday…

This week, activist and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill was fired from his position as a CNN commentator only days after giving a speech at the United Nations to recognize the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. In his speech, he spoke about the normalization of settler colonialism in Israel, the displacement…