by Daad Sharfi Vi Takahashi was a young Seattle teenager in 1942 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, ordering all Japanese-Americans to vacate the West Coast. It was two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The order displaced 120,000 people. While Takahashi herself was never interned, her husband spent two years…
by Daad Sharfi I had never been surrounded by so many Muslim writers before. I walked into a lecture hall tucked away in the City College of New York School of Law to attend the Muslim Writers Collective’s first open mic of the year–The Storyteller’s Resolution. I was not prepared for the three hours of…
by Madison DeJesus With 44 seconds left on the clock, Peyton Manning, then an Indianapolis Colt, throws an incomplete pass under pressure to Reggie Wayne and guarantees a New Orleans Saints victory in Super Bowl XLIV. With 40 seconds left on the clock Peyton Manning and Reggie Wayne are seen leaving the field before the accustomed…
by Yonas Takele The 1990’s were an era marked by the proliferation of such phenomena as pagers, Bob Saget, and the reign of Michael Jordan. The 90’s also mark the beginning of a musical phenomena, gangsta rap. With the rise of such apostolic rap industry pioneers as Tupac, The Notorious BIG, and groups like N.W.A….
As members of the Coordinating Committee, the elected leadership of GESO, we write to our colleagues who drafted “An Open Letter to GESO Leadership,” published on January 25, 2016. As a leadership group made up overwhelmingly of women, people of color and LGBTQ people, we face many of the challenges outlined in your letter. We…