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,…
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 Claire Sheen “I want everyone to close their eyes. Imagine you only have one minute left to live. Who is beside you?” “I’ve only done this once before,” was Emi Mahmoud’s simple preface to this request. Thoughts and faces of loved ones flickered through the minds of the crowd surrounding the Women’s Table on…
By Treston Codrington When the organizers of Yale’s Religion and Film Series selected “Religion and Social Change” as this year’s theme last spring, co-organizer Dr. Briallen Hopper says, “we couldn’t have foreseen the way these movements for social change would come to Yale.” In fact, the series screened the documentary A Time for Burning the…