by Eleanor Pritchett We write music/ we write songs/ to tell a story,” Lin-Manuel Miranda rapped in his Grammy acceptance last week, standing on the stage of Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theater. Pushing to the front, Anthony Ramos waved Puerto Rico’s flag, frantic and proud; behind him was the whole cast of Hamilton, the breakout rap…
by Ashia Ajani During lunch, where some of the most uncomfortable conversations take place, one of my peers brought up the death of Justice Scalia, who in my opinion, need not be spoken of anymore than necessary. Despite Scalia’s bigotry, his history of habitually flunking Black students under his instruction when he was a law…
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 Ryan Wilson Like millions of other kids since the early 20th century, I grew up on superhero cartoons and comics. These stories made up of bright, fantastic colors both on the screen and on the page, made up some of the most enjoyable moments of my childhood. For me and many other kids, the adventures…