Let Kids Be Kids: Pre-Teen Media is Vanishing, and It’s Affecting Teen Development
By: Serena Edwards Growing up in the early 2000s, the growing Gen-Z had a plethora of options to turn to during our preteen years. From […]
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“Hamilton” 10 Years Later: Ahead of Its Time or a Product of Its Time?
By: Renae Visico I was eleven when I listened to a “Hamilton” song for the first time. As a child discovering my passion for musical […]
Beyond the Bathroom Binary: All-Gender Restrooms at Brooklyn College
By: Massimo Ranieri West End Building (WEB) 158 is a perfectly normal bathroom. Sure, the urinals are placed directly across from the sinks, which makes […]
A Lover Girl With Boundaries: Summer Walker Releases “Finally Over It”
By Serena Edwards Grammy-nominated recording artist Summer Walker released the third edition to her “Over it” album series on Nov. 14. This album is entitled […]
A New Ferry Line?: The Struggle & Thoughts of a Staten Island Commuter
By: Ameena Khan It’s official! Starting next month on Dec. 8, 2025, Staten Island (SI) and Brooklyn will have a connecting route in the NYC […]
Being Black at a PWI: Raw and Unfiltered Feelings From a Black Woman
By: Serena Edwards Burnt out. Angry. Fed up. These are emotions that every Black girl at a predominantly white institution (PWI) has felt during their […]
How the Forgotten Borough Reacted to Zohran Mamdani
By: Ameena Khan On Aug. 13, democratic socialist and future mayor-elect of New York City (NYC) Zohran Mamdani would arrive at Staten Island (SI), “which […]
Fonso’s Interlude: Hip-Hop Isn’t Dying, There’s a Disconnect Between the Mainstream and Underground
By: Alfonso Abreu Hip-Hop is not dead, and is far from ever dying. It is easy to look at Billboard’s last week report of there […]
SNAP Funding is the Latest Battle in Decades-Long War Against Welfare
By: Samuel Mortel Over 40 million people were at risk of losing their SNAP benefits and going hungry. Conservatives online, in the media, and even […]
Modern Day Slavery: The 13th Amendment Did Not Abolish Slavery
By: Serena Edwards The 13th Amendment is famously known as the amendment that prohibits slavery; however, millions of inmates are subjected to slavery conditions because […]