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(09/07/20 12:09am)
Last week, as I was walking through the Horseshoe, I stumbled across a plaque acknowledging that this portion of campus was built by slave labor. It is supposed to honor the enslaved people who were forced to build this school brick by brick.
(10/27/19 9:27pm)
The N-word is undeniably one of the most controversial words in the English language.
(09/30/19 1:51am)
The current national student debt in America collectively sums up to an astounding $1.5 trillion, according to a report issued by the Federal Reserve.
(09/02/19 10:59pm)
Since 2001, deaths by suicide among black males between the ages of 13 and 19 have increased 60%. In that same time span, deaths by suicide among black females between the ages of 13 and 19 have increased by an almost unbelievable 182%. Despite this alarmingly high influx of black kids taking their own lives over the past two decades, mental illness remains a touchy, taboo subject within the African American community.
(08/28/19 1:57am)
It goes without saying, but college is stressful.
(08/16/19 3:29am)
There are two types of segregation: de jure and de facto. De jure segregation is an enforced separation of groups in a society by law, while de facto segregation refers to an unspoken division of groups based largely on the common ideologies and cultural similarities of the respective groups — as it is at USC.
(06/03/19 7:49pm)
When my acceptance letter arrived from USC, I was excited, to say the least. Getting into college is supposedly a crowning achievement, especially for a black man. The United Negro College Fund says that black males boast an alarmingly low college graduation rate nationally. So, with this and my mother’s expectations, I saw it my duty to accept this challenge fearlessly.