Month: September 2014
“Dear White People”: Nationally Anticipated Movie examines racism from the setting of an American PWI
JESSICA STUBBS | Correspondent “Dear white people, please stop touching my hair. Does this look like a petting zoo to you?” Is one of the many hilariously biting lines from this fall’s newest releases, “Dear White People.” A...
Read More‘B’ Student: Rutger’s Ph.D. candidate teaches “Beyoncé” course
TAARI COLMAN | Staff Writter A new course was added to the Department of Women’s and Genders Studies at Rutgers University in January of 2012. Instructed by Kevin Allred, a doctoral student at Rutgers, “Politicizing Beyoncé” is...
Read MoreDaddy Debate: Terry Crews
VERNON HOLMAN | Staff Writer Those interested in gender role differences and the ‘nuclear family’ may have noticed some of the controversial philosophical and sociological arguments about the significance of a father figure in...
Read MoreThe Disappearance of the Black Coach
CASLEE SIMS | Staff Writer Only 8.7 percent of all Division-I college basketball head coaches are African-American, according to the 2013 Racial and Gender Report Card: College Sport. In 1966, John McLendon became the first...
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