1619 Exhibit, Race Card Project kick off ‘400th’
Corryn Brock, News Editor
September 3, 2019
Two events were held to kick off a series of events with the purpose of looking in depth at race in the past, present and future in American society. The event falls on the 400th anniversary of the first Africans being brought the what is now the U.S. The first event of the day was held in Booth...
Ariel is not real; leave her alone
Dillan Schorfheide, Sports Editor
July 9, 2019
Race is a subject that should not be thrown around willy-nilly; it is a delicate subject with real, powerful meaning. Even me and my fellow student journalists here at Eastern are taught to not mention race unless it is pertinent to the story. So I want to apply this logic to the “Little Mermaid”...
Editorials exist for us to read, react and act
February 21, 2019
There is no shred of doubt that the editorial that Goodloe Sutton published in his the Democrat-Reporter on Feb. 14 promotes a demonstrably false, morally irresponsible agenda that hurts minorities and political figures who were unjustly targeted. On Feb. 14, Sutton published the editorial called “Klan ...
Eastern responds to racial slur written on Doudna’s Stairwell
Analicia Haynes, Managing Editor
February 25, 2018
After a racist slur was written in a stairwell of the Doudna Fine Arts Center, Kiara Reed, a freshman political science major, took to social media to call out racism on campus. She said when her friend showed her the picture he had taken of the N-word, which was written in the stairwell in big,...
Column: Symbols of hate should be removed
Chris Picazo, Staff Reporter
June 22, 2015
Tragedy struck Charleston, S.C. when a shooting took place that left nine people dead Wednesday evening in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The act of terror came out of nowhere from the shooter who allegedly spent an hour praying with victims before he attacked. The suspect, Dylann...
