My reading group’s name was “Youth Voices In Modern Society”. The reading group was hosted by Oscar and me, and was held for one week over Zoom. We discussed topics such as police reform, immigration, education reform, and civil rights. With each topic we had specific texts to foster conversations
My reading group centered around the topic of education in the context of how it has been supplied to various groups and how we can find more meaningful experiences in our own education. I was pleasantly surprised by the diverse range of Fordham class years present in our meetings. Including
The power of love can keep people going in a society that is filled with injustice and discrimination. Ta-Nehisi Coates understood the power of love in his book, Between The World And Me, as he was attempting to warn his son about hardships growing up in the world as a
Don’t eviscerate me yet. The question is not as wild as it seems. You think of integration and you assume it’s generally positive: the coming together of everything under one general umbrella in society. That is what history has illusioned us to think anyway. Integration–in society, in the military, and
The heartbreaking deaths of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Ahmad Arbery in Georgia have shown the world how profoundly embedded racial prejudice and racism are in the social framework of the United States. As a black young man in America, I feel every day is a