Earlier this month, Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake that killed over 2,000 people, leaving many homeless, about 12,000 injured, and more than 300 people missing. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake is one of many natural disasters to hit the country recently. According to Axios, the aftermath of Tropical Storm Grace made relief efforts all the more complex, in addition to the death of President Jovenel Moïse, the global pandemic, crime, poverty, etc. With Haiti declaring a state of emerge

The origin of the term “maroon” is two-fold, deriving from the French word “marron,” meaning feral, and the Spanish word “cimarrón,” meaning wild. With that being said, it is hard to ignore the significant influence Europe has had on the Maroon people; free slaves whose geographical distribution includes that of Jamaica, Mexico, Brazil, Panama, Ecuador, and more. Here are seven things you should know about the Maroons.

The NAACP or the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization that has been around for a number of years. Founded in Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1909 (one year after the Springfield Illinois Race Riots) as a "response to the ongoing violence against Black people around the country," it is "the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation." Its founding members include W.E.B Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, and many more.

To Find Myself I Had to Step Outside Myself The occasional twist and turn of the highway in Upstate New York is the only thing that reminds me that we’re technically driving through the mountains. At some point, the greenery all blurs together

Sumaya Mulla-Carillo is passionate about many things: traveling, baking, sewing, Ruth Badger Ginsberg, financial literacy, and the fact that the Upper East Side apartment she shares with her partner is (in her opinion) far too tiny for her Zoom dance rehearsals.

Once inside Hunter College’s Frederick Loewe Theatre, it’s hard to miss the Feb. 20 crowd of about 30 lining the wall and filling the cushioned seats of the theatre’s packed hallway. A red-ribboned shrine of playbills glistens as conversations, and the melodic tones of string instruments merge. The unmistakable lilt of a young girl’s voice soars high above the noise as she questions her mother about the sounds she’s hearing.

Music brings us joy, laughter, sadness, and understanding. It comforts us in our hours of weakness; it’s there for us to rely on in our moments of confusion. When the crescendo collectively crashes over us, we all feel connected; in short, music brings us together. That being said, one could undoubtedly say the same for Zoë Kravitz’s “High Fidelity.” It’s hard to imagine the 2020 Hulu original as anything other than a millennial masterpiece. A class in sentimentality, heartbreak, and, most impo

Opportunity is something that we all search for. We wait for the right time to ask that question, to hit that ball, to go to that place, to do that thing that we never did. Either that, or we spend a majority of our lives wondering “What if?” What if I went on that stage? What if I won that race? What if I felt seen the first time I looked at a television? What if Hollywood was more diverse? In short, opportunity is something that we all search for, but hardly find when we need it most. To sum it up, I’m sure we’d all like to have one tumultuous act uproot and change the entire course of our lives. There’s no one better to talk to about a life-changing opportunity than with up and coming actress Lilly Ramundo,

As a society, I believe that we can all collectively agree there is a certain beauty to downing a cool glass of water at the end of a long, hot summer day. For a moment, our minds still and all becomes quiet, as we become instantly trapped in a beautiful state of serenity. A feeling that both literally and figuratively quenches such desperation is one that is hard to recreate. However, there are indeed ways in which we as can feel just as easily encapsulated by such senses of bliss and surety: t

So, I know you’ve been a creative for most of your life. Can you describe to me your earliest interaction with a camera or photography in general? CAROLINE: “I have been interested in photography my whole life but I had not truly pursued it until recently. My first interaction with a camera was when I played around with my grandma’s point and shoot film camera at the age of 4. I would take pictures around her apartment and bring it to birthday parties and take loads of photos for her, and she

It’s 7:00 p.m. on a rainy Wednesday night in July. I’ve just completed a rigorous eight-hour shift and a ten-minute grocery store pit stop. As horns blare and the night passes by, I quickly scribble down the twenty questions that have been living in my brain for the past three days. In short, I’ve got a phone interview in a half hour that I’m definitely going to be late for. Looking back now, I could’ve passed on the extra set of Nutter Puffs, no snack is worth the side hustle, even if it’s glut