by Ashia Ajani Kehlani is a twenty year old R&B singer who attempted suicide last weekend after a cryptic Instagram post made the internet think that she had cheated on Kyrie Irving with PartyNextDoor (These accusations were later proven false). Chris Brown even had some unsolicited words for the singer/songwriter, calling her suicide attempt a ploy for attention. But…
by Nicole Chavez A clenched fist. A firm handshake. A steady salute. All are associated with authority and accord. These gestures are the antitheses to the sweaty, limp handshake at the meeting between President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro on March 22nd. The encounter occurred eighty-eight years after the last visit a sitting American…
by Ashia Ajani The Saybrook Underbrook Theater is pitch black. A light slowly brightens up the stage, and a woman in white prison scrubs labeled “SHU” (Security Housing Unit) looks up at a screen. The screen reads: “Mariposa was sentenced to 15 months in solitary confinement for being in possession of tweezers.” From there, the play…
by Claire Sheen Dylan Marron, voice of Carlos on Welcome to Night Vale, star of web series Whatever This Is, creator of the YouTube series and Tumblr blog Every Single Word, and member of the New York Neofuturists, came to Yale in February for a talk called “Every Single Word: Racial Erasure in Pop Media.”…
by Yuni Chang “I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.” – Zora Neale Hurston Outside the quaint suburban home of an all-American white couple, an expelled member of the KKK readies himself for an explosive entrance with noose and gun in hand. When his initial targets – the Black…