by Jorge Lema “I feel that smart kids are dedicated to school and do not have the same personality as me,” my sister Stefany told me. For years, my parents and I questioned why Stefany chose to attend the High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology (Tele, a zone school) while I attended a prestigious…
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 Karen Marks January 24th began recruitment for Yale’s four sororities: Kappa Kappa Gamma (Kappa), Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta), Pi Beta Phi (Pi Phi), and the newest chapter of Alpha Phi. On entering the rush process, sophomore Theta pledge Celeste Dushime said that she knew for sure that she would be in a minority of rushes,…
by Arturo Pineda On February 16th, President Peter Salovey and Provost Benjamin Polak announced the establishment of a Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). The new center will continue the work of the Ethnicity, Race, & Migration Program by focusing on the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality but aim…
DOWN Voices Staff Because the social media accounts of Yalies of color give us life. Shoutout to all the white cis men in Race and Gender in American Literature. Facts. Check out more gems from Javier here. Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright, we’re looking at you. Some things just need to be Facebook…