Due to many recent environmental health movements against plastics, many people believe plastic bags are detrimental to the planet's health. Increased awareness of plastic's harm to the world has led to an increased usage of cotton and paper bags. However, the...
“Cancel” culture, by very definition, is the mass backlash to individuals that take actions deemed unfit by the public, in usually forms of social media. “Canceling” someone is a way anyone online could publicly call for accountability if they did something wrong or...
Like it or not, the American hegemony on the world order is ending soon. This may sound overly alarming to some, but to overlook this critical point in history would be foolish. As the world shifts from a unipolar world order revolving around America to a multipolar...
Plastic pollution has been around since the 1960s and up to today's date, the amount of plastic found in our oceans has increased over the years. This an issue that has to be taken more seriously because it's putting humans and marine life at risk. We produce 300...
“If tomorrow women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business,” Dr. Gail Dines once said. I still remember reading this quote and thinking of all the celebrities people look up to. There are fans who...
Like satin, the syllables slip off of structured stanzas, stumbling then settling into the softened recesses of my heart. I swallow, and then this art, this poem, plummets, like stone, like a cherry pit, into the round of my stomach. This is it: what we have lost to...
Before George Floyd turned into a hashtag, he was somebody’s father. “I want to touch the world,” Jonathan Veal recalls Floyd saying. In Floyd’s youth, he received an athletic scholarship and is remembered for his sense of humor, compassion and tall physique. After...
Echo Park Lake reopened May 26, after homeless people were forced out in late March. Authorities fenced off Echo Park Lake and closed it to the public March 24, forcing out people who resided in a homeless encampment, according to L.A. Mag. Hundreds of supporters of...
Climate change. Global warming. Two words, one indisputable meaning, one unequivocal outcome: the destruction of our home. Yet, despite common belief, the climate crisis is not a new threat whatsoever. In fact, oil companies knew about climate change and how gas...
Fascism: “a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.” According to a Newsweek Op-Ed by Robert...
