I’ll make my music boring, I’ll play my music slow I ain’t no artist; I’m a businessman No ideas of my own I won’t offend or rock the boat Just sex and drugs and rock and roll - Dead Kennedys,...

In “Letter to My Father”, Martin Espada uses a description of Hurricane Maria’s aftermath in Puerto Rico as a representation of his father’s experiences. The speaker of the poem is Martin Espada,...

Poverty is black ice. — Naomi Ayala   You leave me sleeping in the dark. You kiss me and I stir, fingers in your hair, eyes open, unseeing. You leave me asleep every morning, commuting...

Since ancient times with the Olympics in Ancient Greece, sports have brought people together. Sports are something that can connect people of all socioeconomic groups and unite them behind their favorite...

A note to the reader: while this argument will still be intelligible without having read Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, I highly encourage you to do so in order to have both greater context...

The headlines that Marvel may lose the rights to Spider-Man are certainly shocking, but I want to clear up what this really means. The estate of Steve Ditko, creator of Spider-Man and Dr Strange, and one...

At the beginning of the liner notes for his 1971 album, What’s Going On, Marvin Gaye wrote “After some several days of reflecting and pondering and general thought (which is very unusual), I still...

The concept of performative activism is ubiquitous. Proliferated throughout a summer of spikes in “awareness” around long-standing issues of anti-Blackness, police brutality, anti-Asian violence, etc,...

By 1993, video games had come a long way from simple arcade games, such as Pong or Pac-Man. Video game graphics had evolved from simple images projected onto a screen, to 8-bit pixels, and now to 16-bit...