Kendal Williams was one of the most authentic and genuine people to walk this earth. She didn’t hold back, practicing radical honesty with all those around her. She knew how she felt and she wasn’t afraid to say it. It is a realness like this that set Kendal apart from …
Read More »Poetic History: What we can learn from the protests of the past
Protests mean everything or nothing on the basis of four conditional factors: the number of people participating, the duration and breadth of the demonstrations, their ability to gain public sympathy, and their undeniable economic inconvenience. If a protest successfully secures at least ¾ of these factors, it is more likely …
Read More »The SUN Staff’s Picks: Quarantine Music Recs
Sarah: Volume II by The Ink Spots (Honest, Flirty, Blue), This Love by Bobby Oroza (Vulnerable, Consistent, @ Peace), Honorable Mention: Portrait of a Time by Peter Cat Recording Co. (a single, not an album). Sofia: Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey (healing, romantic, harmonious), Rumors by Fleetwood Mac (nostalgia, peace, …
Read More »Did you know ‘There’s Something in the Water’?
The sun is shining, the water is a hospitable shade of blue, and maple leaves scatter themselves across outfits of national pride- a picture so beautiful you can almost hear the bubbly jazz of Lenny Breau in the background. A woman’s voice narrates the scene until the viewers nearly believe …
Read More »Fire at MC
By Staff Writer Roxy Hudson Posted by Co-EIC Sarah Kadous “It smells like barbeque,” said many MC athletes at practice after school on Monday, September 23. Smoke and the smell of fire spread through the Mt. Carmel High School campus at about 4:40pm after the shrubbery between the high school …
Read More »Global Climate Strike to be from 20th-27th
“Our house is on fire,” reads the front page of a website that calls for an international statement to be made in the name of climate justice. A long running revolution was brought to the forefront of youth advocacy when sixteen year old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke before a …
Read More »Trump’s Taliban Talks are ‘Dead’
By Staff Writer Ro’aa Al-Khawaja Posted by EIC Sarah Kadous On Saturday, September 7, President Trump announced via Twitter that he had canceled his secret meeting with the Taliban at Camp David. This was due to a bombing in Kabul near a US embassy that killed 12 people, including an …
Read More »“You May Love Your Country and Despise Your Government”
When Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) argued that Americans needed “to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country”, President Donald Trump was quick to criticize the Muslim congresswoman, calling her anti-Semitic and even suggested that …
Read More »States are passing gun reform Red Flag Laws (and they’re working)
Currently, federal law allows the block of sales and confiscation of firearms from people who have been “convicted of certain crimes, adjudicated as mentally ill or involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital, or who are subject to a final domestic violence restraining order” (Everytown Research). However, a person who presents …
Read More »Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Israel: saying what needs to be said
Surprise, surprise! The first female Muslim-American black immigrant in Congress has the country on their toes and the GOP is not happy about it. If you thought Obama was a tough pill for the elephant in office to swallow, welcome to the hour of Rep. Ilhan Omar. In light of …
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