By Chelsea Perry Gym class was an everlasting trail of waterfalls. Brown, red, strawberry blonde…  Flowing and swinging back and forth followed by cheerful laughter and shouts of “my hair got so long!”I was a bush. A bush among waterfalls. “Touch your toes!” The P.E teacher would yell, and a cascade of long fine hair…

  by Bemsi Wallang She spins through the current with wide eyes and arms apart All she wants is to feel something to remind her that feeling has not left her and bitterness is not her with the space she has been given She will make something of herself and the grace within her soul…

My friends and family were screaming, I saw the snapchat videos being taken, and my pageant sisters were whispering congratulations through their stage smiles, but when I heard my name I couldn’t help but be taken aback. So many emotions fled into my heart: I was surprised that I won, relieved that all the stress…

by Sheldon Moore I am a current sophomore at the University of Georgia and out of my two years on this campus I have never experienced someone being racially disrespectful until recently. It was a regular school day and I decided to study in MLC. An older white man came into my study room and…

By Semhal Hadgu 55 days. 1320 hours, 79200 minutes. A relatively short amount of time, only about 15% of one year (I know right, typical Stats major). But a lot can happen in any given period, whether 10 minutes or 10 years. And even more can happen when you’re restricting yourself from certain aspects of…

By Jayla Johnson In the black community, it is commonly known that parents believe in corporal punishment and other extreme forms of discipline. Parents have become more creative with their punishment as time evolved. An example of new forms of punishment is making young men cut their hair completely off. In a recent video on…