By Tiyya Geiger As we see an increasing amount of articles being published about layoffs in the tech industry, it is easy to buy into the belief that AI will replace us. While that sentiment may become true within the next few years, there is still time to prepare and understand the implications of AI’s involvement in the technology landscape. As economic inequality rises and … Continue reading Is the fear of AI-induced layoffs justified?
President Biden narrowly won the 2020 election with the surge of support from African Americans and young voters who came to his aid in the polls against incumbent President Donald Trump. Four years later, President Biden’s strategy no longer reflects that of a lesser of two evils, instead a centrist liberal who bends to the will of the center right-leaning Democratic Party to pass limited … Continue reading How Biden Alienated the Youth Vote, and How He Can Win Them Back
By Tiyya Geiger Cellphone addiction in our increasingly interconnected society perhaps most clearly manifests itself in our grudgingly short attention spans. We itch for the answer to our questions the second they appear and when gone unanswered, we allow the next thing to distract us in a cycle of never-ending vapidness. Previously intriguing dilemmas now rarely cause a batted eye or induce a spark of … Continue reading Cell Phone Addiction: a Personal Retrospective
By Tiyya Geiger High school second chair in clarinet, avid lover of self-help books, and dedicated to power hour, Dr. Keith Miles Jr’s disciplined and active lifestyle allows him to be an effective leader, and keeps him busy. I caught Dr. Keith Miles after a superintendent student cabinet meeting, now referred to as Listening and Learning sessions. As we sat in the freezing room B123, … Continue reading Meet Dr. Miles
by Tiyya Geiger During the week of October 16, 2023, McCaskey was under lockdown three separate times. As national investigations regarding the links between increased access to assault weapons and increased violence continue, it is important to understand what lockdowns are and how they impact McCaskey as a whole. Lockdowns at McCaskey are characterized by the coexistence of dissipating anxiety and increasing desensitization to violence, … Continue reading Understanding McCaskey’s recent lockdowns
On June 29, 2023, college admission offices across the country scrambled to release public statements in the face of the groundbreaking Supreme Court Case ruling declaring the unconstitutionality of affirmative action in college admission decisions. This means that the national high school class of 2024 will not have affirmative action and race-conscious admissions policies affecting their path to higher education. What is Affirmative Action? Affirmative … Continue reading After Affirmative Action: Where Do We Go From Here?
Americans are notorious for not only being unable to speak multiple languages, unlike the rest of the world, but also not wanting to. Native born Americans make the United States a largely monolingual country and English is a growing language that you can find on every continent. There is no shortage of foreign languages spoken in the US, in fact, there are 54 languages spoken … Continue reading Why are Americans terrible at learning languages?
The caption “Black Women Against Tech,” is featured on a TikTok video capturing an automatic sink unable to detect the hand of a black woman but perfectly capable of detecting a paper towel and dispensing water. This phrase at first encounter may seem like people trying to make a problem out of nothing. However, racism in technology is a very real issue with dangerous implications … Continue reading Racism is Built into Facial Recognition Technology
The United States is no stranger to censorship. The horrifying attempts to discard any progress made in America’s education system are becoming bolder and more alarming. The legality of attacks on race-based discussions such as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act,” signed last year are gaining media traction as the arguments regarding censorship circulate courts nationwide. Perfectly phrased by Dean Pernell of Florida A&M … Continue reading AP African American Studies: Timeline, Controversy, and Perspective
For McCaskey chemistry teacher Mr. M’Mugambi, America wasn’t always the dream. Growing up in Kenya, he never thought he would take his teaching career to America, but he is grateful that he did. As a recent college graduate teaching in a remote school, Mr. M’Mugambi took a chance when he heard the Philadelphia School District was recruiting teachers from Kenya. He applied as a joke—he … Continue reading Mr. M’Mugambi and the Beauty of Education
The release of the movie Black Panther cultivated a legacy as more than a box office record-breaking film. For young black children everywhere, seeing their culture represented on the big screen not only as the center of a movie, but as the hero, was a revolution that at times seemed unfathomable. To be able to see not only your people, but such a large diaspora … Continue reading Wakanda Forever is More Than Just a Movie
It’s no surprise that students often find themselves silently dozing during a history lesson, daydreaming during a biology nearpod, or flat out sleeping through a math lesson- we see it all the time. This is the daily scene in classrooms across the globe. For most students, school consists of unengaging lessons that do just about anything but peak their interest in what they are learning. … Continue reading The Devaluation of Curiosity in Education
On September 8, 2022 all eyes were on Britain when Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died. At 96, it brought an end to her seventy-year reign. Her death evoked an immediate flood of mourning for the longest reigning British monarch, one who has ruled through volatile times in our world’s history as a leader of the largest imperial empire to date. The British Empire encompassed … Continue reading What Queen Elizabeth’s Death Means for Former Colonies
Assimilationism and Respectability Politics, perhaps the same theory when bound to the black body, are both relative to the concept Dr. W.E.B DuBois coined as “double consciousness”. However, his claim “One ever feels his twoness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder,” can be … Continue reading Respectability Politics and the Black Body
You all know Martin Luther King Jr, but do you know the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington? His name was Bayard Rustin, and one of the reasons history has overlooked him is that he was openly gay. Rustin was an extremely intelligent organizer and strategist who helped mold Dr. King into an image of peace and nonviolence. In 1956, Bayard Rustin arrived in … Continue reading Bayard Rustin: Nonviolent Visionary
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