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Mental health in traditional cultures is more taboo than accepted. Growing up in a very conventional Bengali household, I adopted a toxic outlook on mental health issues. However, my beliefs have matured a lot since then and are continuing to…

MILITARY RECRUITMENT: Schools in low-income neighborhoods are used as gold mines to recruit soldiers from high schools and colleges 10 times more than prosperous schools. This is usually being done by attracting them with promises to financially support their families…

Do you think music should have trigger warnings? Honestly, that question tripped me up when my friend first asked me. My initial thought was, shouldn’t it be up to the artist because it’s their work? But then I thought about…

Many of us know about the War on Drugs during the 1970s, the era of mass incarceration from mostly low-level offenses, such as the possession of marijuana and the systemic distribution of crack to racially and economically marginalized neighborhoods. “We…

Considering it’s the last day of January, it’s important to remember February as Black History Month. Upon asking myself, Why is February ‘Black History Month’?, I realized that I didn’t know because of America’s education system and its lack of…

*TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENT LANGUAGE* “My feet and my hands were tied up with iron shackles,” said 45-year old Ӧmir Bekali, “and they beat my hands, they beat my feet … they beat my back and my stomach.”  Mr. Bekali is…

Many white people deny having white privilege. In response, Kahlil Fair, a Jamaican American who is negatively affected by the privilege, claims that it’s because white people aren’t “cognizant of the fact that their position is different from the minority…