A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake
We are constantly and without a moments notice bombarded with images and news stories centered around conflict and suffering. An overload...
Harper's Index
1:50 Number of trees leaves in New York City that have turned colors with the season 75 Percentage of scientists who predicted that the...
Lin Manuel Miranda Sings Trump’s Long Sentence
Original, creative, and imaginative, Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical rendition of Trump’s run-on sentence is, to me, a fantastic example of...
Black Bodies, White Cubes
Taylor Renee Aldridge’s article in Art News, “Black Bodies, White Cubes: The Problem with Contemporary Art’s Appropriation of Race,”...
Island of Flowers/Fiji Water: Spin The Bottle Analyses
At the beginning of the film, Portuguese words fill the screen, with subtitles underneath that read “THIS IS NOT A FICTION FILM.”...
Island of Truth
Ilha Das Flores by Jorge Furtado is an experimental short film that uses non – fiction literature, music, and visual images to...
Comedic Weight
Saturday Night Live is an American comedy television show that has translated current events into sketch comedy skits ever since October...
Trevor Noah's Tame Interview
The beginnings of Trevor Noah's stewardship of The Daily Show were worrying. He seemed to ditch the constant intellectual rigor and...
The Last Day of the First Part of My Life
When we are not immediately involved historical events but were alive to bear witness to them, we often think of them in the context of...
Insurance Fraud & Kanye West: Capitalizing off Black Bodies When the 13th Amendment Isn’t Enough
Kanye West’s net worth amounts to around one hundred forty-five million dollars. One hundred and five million dollars were from concerts...