Category: Opinion

In the first semester of the school year, I had two social studies classes, Economics and World Religions. On the first day of school, I walked into both classrooms and was startled by the...

“I think the impact that colorism has on young girls—light girls and dark girls—leave scars on the soul that follow them well into womanhood,” said author Iyanla Vanzant at the beginning of Light Girls....

If you haven’t heard of Game of Thrones, you are missing out. This TV series on HBO is based off of the epic fantasy novel series by George R.R. Martin called A Song of...

In 1989, with the decades-old communist state on the verge of collapse, the people of Poland faced a question crucial to their national identity: what does it mean to be Polish? The same year,...

Perhaps the greatest strength of the Amherst school system is its record of encouraging the development of its students into precocious, politically-aware young people, strong in their convictions and uncompromising in their search for...

Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures is an inspiring movie, reconstructing the true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), three black female mathematicians who were employed...

I would like to start by saying that everyone should see Get Out at least once. Not because it’s scary and entertaining, but for the fact that it has a very important message embedded...

The most recent iteration of the Kong franchise is a very difficult movie to review.   Kong: Skull Island opens with monster-hunter Bill Randa (John Goodman) securing a government contract to journey to Skull...

Five year-old Saroo (Sunny Pawar) and older brother Guddu (Abhishek Bharate) face devastating poverty in rural India in 1986. At the mercy of whatever work travels their way, they leave their loving mother, who...

Imagine waking up one morning and finding your whole town in shambles. You are afraid to walk on the streets because of the fear of being bombed. That’s what life is like right now...