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Here we are once again: the last issue of the semester. This one hits especially hard for me – come May, I’m out of here for real for real. Graduation. Job(s). Apartment(s). Taxes. But don’t cry for me just yet – I’ve still got one more…

I want to start off this article by asserting that Janelle Monáe’s “Dirty Computer” should have won Album of the Year. Of course, given the Grammy Awards’ notorious track record of benching black artists in the AOTY category, I knew chances…

Jussie Smollett is an actor and singer known for his role as Jamal Lyon in “Empire” and his activism within the black and LGBTQ+ communities. On the morning of Jan. 29, he was targeted and attacked on the street by two white men, one of…

Perhaps NPR’s Ann Powers said it best in her breakdown of the greatest music to come out the past year: “In 2018, women in music are not newcomers, novelties, or antidotes. They are here, at the top...” This sentiment certainly reflects…

Since the release of their self-titled debut in 2013, the British pop band, The 1975, have been labeled many things: groundbreaking, pretentious, original, sellouts, bland, iconic.All of these titles are warranted. Frontman Matty Healy has…

When Lorde first rose to fame in 2013, no one really knew what to think of her. Here was this awkward 17-year-old girl with wild hair and black lipstick, who dressed in dark colors and danced on stage like she was getting electrocuted. SHE…

My biggest problem with the satirical piece editor-in-chief Daniel Banta published last week is his definition of intersectionality. To some, intersectionality may be the act of looking past similarities to focus on differences, as his…

So the Oscars happened.  Up to its premiere this past Sunday night, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the #MeToo movement that has been taking Hollywood by storm since October.  Would Jimmy Kimmel talk about sexual harassment in his…