by Ryan Wilson Earlier this week, the U.S. Treasury Department announced plans to replace the image on the $20 bill of former genocidal maniac (and president), Andrew Jackson, with a portrait of Harriet Tubman. It was initially widely believed that Tubman would be completely replacing Jackson on the bill. It was later announced that Harriet Tubman,…
by Elizabeth Spenst “Now since it is 6:10 in Brazil, most of my childhood friends would be here,” Daniel Lucas Alves da Silva tells me as we stare at a wall facing a street lined with trees on Google Maps Street View. People are getting off work and grabbing a coke to drink at the…
by Eugene Lim I was lathering shampoo into my hair when I froze, struck by an unwelcome thought. I rummaged through my sleep-deprived brain. It was the first day of Chinese New Year. Shit. I shut off the water and almost hopped out of the shower. For a few seconds I hovered over the threshold,…
by Arturo Pineda Recently the state of California and the cities of New York and Portland have passed legislation that will gradually raise the minimum wage to 15 dollars. (Portland’s bill will raise the minimum wage to 14.75 dollars). The process to achieve the target minimum wage varies widely but the goal is the same: to create a…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon On the 31st of March, a who’s who of America’s foremost Constitutional scholars and Reconstruction historians gathered in Linsly-Chittenden Hall for a panel discussion entitled “Equal Protection: Origins and Legacies of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Drafted in 1866 by the Radical Republican contingency of a U.S. Congress still operating without the eleven Confederate states,…