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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: An Interview with Jalib Johnson

“Jabari Johnson (aka Jalib), the 3rd youngest of four boys, was born in Upstate New York and raised in Harlem, NY. At an early age he displayed a performer’s charisma, doing whatever it…

Being an artist is not a one-man sport. 

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Bringing Theory to Practice: Creating a Culture of Support and Collaboration in STEM

Truth Hunter is the assistant director of BEOP, Bard’s Educational Opportunity Programs. Her experience and expertise lies in designing and hosting academic and personal skill development workshops…

My dream is that it shouldn’t matter where you come from academically. That, whether or not you went to the worst schools, you’re able to get to college.

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Forbidden Fruit

You gloried in the consumption Of my Black cookie crumble/ That Milkshake You beckoned to tame/ From that 50 Cent music video. While you watched with self-indulgent eyes/ Your mind quickly sifted o…

And sucked off my bubble gum lip gloss.

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Growing Up By Going Back (A Continuation of “Identified as Un-Asian”)

I hated Dim Sum growing up. I wanted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Ziploc baggies filled with random processed snacks. I hated the taste of Chinese herbal medicine. I wanted my ailments to…

I made the conscious decision to give the Chinese culture I formerly shamed, another chance.

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The Collard Greens were Delicious; But I had Never Tasted them at their Best

I have always been concerned with and interested in the frequency and magnitude of racial oppression in the United States, and how such oppression links to various branching forms of inequity. Con…

White America to this day controls the ethnic socio-economic landscape of Harlem, taking into account and linking the African American diaspora of Harlem between the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century and its recent phenomenon of gentrification.

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Marginalized Asians: Scapegoat at the Hands of White Privilege

A close friend of mine recently pointed out that Asians tend to be the observers of America. Her statement scintillated a previously dormant thought in my mind: Why do Asians tend to be marginalize…

Is it due to inadequate media exposure of the Asian culture, or do we choose to adhere to the label of modesty? 

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Artist Spotlight: #LoveHustle

“see here you mosaic being. brilliant. see how you are celebrated here. shown up for. gathered around and given permission to take up space. there is so much to see here, it is one wid…

there is so much to see here

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How God Kept the Black Woman

I haven’t spoken a word today, but a day for me is a decade for you. I’ve been listening and feeling. I can’t put a finger on it; a voice spits sentences of passion and wisdom that enchants me. So …

I knew which parts of me were dying, and I knew how to regenerate them.