Years ago, I remember my neighbor’s car caught on fire. His cries for help saved him. Other neighbors, including my father, frantically filled buckets with detergent to help kill the flames. This display of empathy,
As Black History Month is commemorated, the question, “Why Should We Celebrate Black History Month?” seems less and less rhetorical as our cultural conversations become more divided. Currently, there’s a public debate on whether this
Memes dominate online discourse as a medium, especially in the forums meant for political topics, with one of the most popular of them being the NPC meme. An NPC is a “non-player character” in a video game
One might believe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born with an innate ability to love against evil. But I’d argue it was a learned strategy curated through critical thinking, planning, and praying. Aside from
My Response to Ximena’s “Why Is “Latinx” Inclusive, Necessary and Unifying?” essay. By: Xavier Bonilla The central thesis in the discussion around whether to use “Latinx” or not appears to be inclusion. Ximena wrote an
During my last semester in college, back in Mexico City in 2015, my professor walked into the classroom and did a quick headcount. Then, he made an announcement –since there were over a dozen female
The shape of language is agnostic of allegiance. Culture appears to be the determinate trajectory for how language evolves with people through time. It is perpetually in flux, just as the humans who created it.
A significant chunk of the US population is struggling with anxiety, and rates are only trending up. Before COVID-19, anxiety was slowly rising, but rates quickly accelerated once the pandemic and associated prevention measures began.
About 15 years ago at a reunion in the Wyoming mountains, the elder generation started talking politics over dinner. Being a twenty-something scholar of Facebook and cable news, I tuned out the other noise and
A couple of weeks before Halloween, two climate change activists stormed into the London National Gallery with a purpose: to make a statement at the expense of Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” one of the Gallery’s
