On April 9, Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth became the first woman to give birth while serving as a U.S. Senator. Subsequently, her peers in the Senate voted unanimously to allow babies on the Senate...
Last Monday, a Black Harvard University student was beaten by Cambridge Police while being arrested for public intoxication and nudity on Massachusetts Avenue in Harvard Square. Video shows police knocking...
Last week, Utah was the first state to pass a ‘free-range parenting’ law, which states that parents cannot be arrested for permitting their child to be independent. The law outlines what constitutes...
A few weeks ago, the Department of Commerce announced that it would be including a new question on the 2020 census inquiring about U.S. citizenship. Many liberal states were immediately outraged, fearing...
The recent lawsuit against Google regarding its hiring practices is just a drop in the large pool of conversations regarding diversity and inclusion in large tech companies. The plaintiff, Arne Wilburg,...
Last week, The New York Times reported that the United States’ birth rate has fallen to a low of 1.87 children per woman—the lowest it has been in 40 years. By contrast, the global population is increasing...
“Black Panther” is an ambitious film that aims to portray Africa, African culture and Blackness in a different light. Marvel entrusts the narrative to a nearly all Black cast and production crew, and...
Last week, the House of Representatives passed two measures that changed the former sexual harassment policy on Capitol Hill. One of the bills bans sexual relations between members of the House and their...
Wellesley for Caribbean Development (WCD) is a cultural organization that seeks to educate the college community about Caribbean culture and support students of Caribbean descent.
The organization, affectionately...
Two weeks ago, I attended the Goldman Lecture in Economics that took place in Tishman Commons. The speaker was N. Gregory Mankiw, a distinguished professor of economics at Harvard and former economic...
Rapper Gucci Mane and his fiancée Keyshia Kao’ir wed on Oct. 17 in a $1.7 million wedding ceremony that was livestreamed on BET for all to see. The wedding, which is the first part of a ten-part...
This year, New York State introduced its Excelsior Scholarship, granting free tuition to state universities for families making $100,000 or less. Lawmakers, such as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, praised...
“Girls” tells the story of four young women, each navigating her own path in New York City, amidst the storm of drama that they have crafted for themselves. Our main protagonist, Hannah Horvath (Lena...
Flipping through an upscale magazine such as Vogue, one may come across lavish beauty advertisements that advocate readers to “treat yourself” and indulge in “self care.” We often see a white woman...
When discussing ISIS and terrorism at large, we tend to do so in a very stereotypical manner. We mention citizens of the same nations, pretending that only they are capable of committing acts of horror...
Last week at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Bernie Sanders gave a speech to a full house as he addressed the fears and concerns that many have moving forward under a Trump presidency. After...
After Tuesday’s stunning electoral upset by Donald Trump, we asked ourselves repeatedly, “How did this happen?” With polling aggregator websites such as FiveThirtyEight projecting the chances of...
The expansion of charter schools in Massachusetts should not be authorized because they have failed many children while escaping review and scrutiny. As long as charter schools receive public funding,...
In the face of the borderline lewd comments made in the back and forth of the presidential debates, we should not aim to censor what the candidates can potentially say, as we then accept these unacceptable...
Once again, the United States failed to recognize the sovereignty of Native Americans, along with the legitimacy of other pressing issues facing their community. The Dakota Access Pipeline is just another...
