by Alex Zhang This is for the senior who will not have a college named after her: who feels the ghosts of slaveowner’s past yanking a rose stem out of her throat, who slit her tongue and watched the blood spill in October — how it flowed into the palms of a thousand newspapers, how…
by Eshe Sherley On Wednesday evening, President Peter Salovey sent a campus-wide email announcing that the name of Calhoun College will remain, the title of “master” will be changed to “head of college,” and that the two new residential colleges will be named after Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray ’65 LAW. As the wise singer…
by Alejandra Padín-Dujon Between 3:30 and 5:00 pm at the Calhoun College buttery on Tuesday, April 26th, POC and indigenous students will welcome the admitted Class of 2020 and initiate Yale’s newest cohort into a culture of student activism. The event, publicized as “POC and Indigenous Turnout for the Turn Up: Building Student Power with the…
by Arturo Pineda If an Internet user Googled “N**** House” in 2015, Google Maps directed them to the White House address. If someone searched “Black girls,” “Asian Girls,” or “Latina Girls” in 2011, the company’s algorithm produced pages of pornographic ads. Google classified both of these incidents as “glitches” in the algorithm. On April 10th during…
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,…