This week’s theme of right to marry and right to exist shed light on one of the many struggles the LGBTQIA+ community endures, specifically in the United States. For Native Americans/ Indigenous community, “being gay” is considered “Two-spirit” meaning that we are gifted with the male and female souls. However, the white heterosexual cis…[Read more]

Source: BBC News

Date: November 25, 2018

The continued topics of illegality and civil rights are perfectly depicted through the media’s coverage of the migrant caravan. The terms “illegal” and “alien” are utilized in order to dehumanize people of color and paint them as a foreign entities in order to install fear of the unknown. The United…[Read more]

This week we covered the concepts of illegality, more specifically the political terminology of “illegal alien” and “undocumented immigrant.” The United States maintains a white-traditional irony of calling immigrants fleeing their countries “illegal aliens.” Growing up, my father would discourage my siblings and I from following the media due to…[Read more]

This week’s theme of legalized islamophobia and the War on terror brought to mind the invasive and discriminatory TSA searches that happen in airports all across the United States. In a recent case, Zainab Merchant, a Harvard University graduate and founder of Zainab Rights, faced a gradually intrusive and traumatizing encounter in the airport…[Read more]

The immorality of the United States seeps through the soles of its foundations. It is a nation of immigrants, yet it forces immigrants children to become even more foreign to life by stripping them of the only home they have ever known- their parents. Although in the World War 2 internment camps, family separation was not part of the policy, it…[Read more]

In this week’s topics of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, the concepts of unity and moral duty were emphasized immensely in respects to the civil rights movement. In King’s “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” he advocates for the end of the war in Vietnam. King indignantly ignites, “We are called to speak for the weak, for the…[Read more]

The image below is of Lucy McBath, an African-American woman running for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District as a Democrat. Lucy McBath became an advocate against police brutality and gun violence after her son Jordan Davis was murdered in cold blood by a white male by the name of Michael Dunn. Dunn stated that he committed first-degree murder…[Read more]