Female Representation in the Olympics

Kicking off 2019, women are playing a key role in the sports world with icons such as Serena Williams and Hailie Deegan frequently filtering through the media. Although the image of the female athlete always lurked in the expansive past, it was obscured by a patriarchal society of the time. In Ancient Greece, organizers banned…

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On the Basis of Sex: A Must-See!

Barnard College kicked off Women’s History Month with the Athena Film Festival; the women’s college advertised the event as “a weekend of inspiring films that tell the extraordinary stories of fierce and fearless women leaders.” From February 28th until March 3rd, the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard and Women and Women and Hollywood,…

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller Concludes His Investigation Into President Trump

On March 22nd, 2019, former FBI director Robert Mueller III delivered his findings from the Justice Department’s probe into President Trump’s potential collusion with Russia to the Attorney General William Barr, ending his almost two year stint as special council. This was an event that seemed impossible to a nation engrossed in the investigation, the…

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I, Too

I, Too by Langston Hughes I, too, sing America.   I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.   Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then.  …

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