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Sep 21

Tell It Tuesday: When All Else Fails, Climb the Statue of Liberty

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Patricia Okoumou By Ta-ning Connai The Statue of Liberty on the 4th of July...what an ironic time and place to wage a protest against immigration laws, considering what both the monument and holiday stand for. It was the perfect place for Rise and Resist (a New York activist group) to oppose the Trump administration's asinine policy of inhumanely snatching innocent…

Sep 21

Tell It Tuesday: How Football Led Kaepernick to a Higher Calling

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Photo illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Source photograph of Colin Kaepernick: Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/ Getty Images. By Ta-ning Connai There’s nothing like a man on a mission, especially a man who didn’t set out to be on one. Colin Kaepernick was getting busy on the turf when the call to activism came knocking. His stand against racial injustice came by…

May 04

Women Are Using Their Bodies as Canvases to Reclaim Self and Protest Social Injustice

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The Awakenings Project by Marissa Southards By Sharee Silerio When Marissa Southards picked up a camera three years ago, she was simply trying something new. One day, her husband Brian, a pencil artist, brought a professional-level camera home so he could work in a different medium. Active in St. Louis protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, she took the…