Farewell column: Poetry cured my writer's block
A few weeks ago, I started writing poetry.
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A few weeks ago, I started writing poetry.
If you’ve seen my social media platforms in the past week, you probably know about my post-grad plans. I will be attending Florida State University to pursue a Master’s of Science in Higher Education Administration.
I’d like to take a break from our regularly scheduled program. A break from the brouhaha of 45 and undoing of democracy as we know it, as well as the fearful reality that I have to become an actual adult in six weeks. I’d like to discuss one of the greatest writers of the last century. I’d like to discuss Baldwin.
Let me start off by stating that I really didn’t want to write another column on school shootings. But some of the public discourse surrounding Parkland has been...ill-conceived, irrational and reactionary. At best.
I planned on writing this column on the dangers of traveling through different climates, especially during flu season.
Back in September, I wrote a column in this newspaper arguing for the continuation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the Obama era policy that protects many undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Last year’s presidential election opened my eyes to one thing: Many Americans have a largely inaccurate perception of rural America. More specifically, the racial makeup of rural America. Yes, much of Middle America and the Bible Belt is largely white and largely conservative. However, that is not the case everywhere.
As most of us know, Thursday, Nov. 2, someone set fire to Davie Poplar, the 300-year-old tulip poplar tree that has stood for the entirety of UNC’s existence.
As of two weeks ago today, the NCAA officially cleared UNC of any violations. There will be no championships vacated, no banners taken and no (more) shame brought to our university. A six-year scandal is finally coming to a close. While everything seems great in the land of the Tar Heels, we have forgotten that one defendant has been found guilty — at least in the court of opinion. While the greater institution have gotten off scot-free, the reputation of the department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies has been greatly tarnished.
Back in September, the State of North Carolina identified 48 low-performing public schools that could potentially be taken over by charter school operators as part of the state’s new Innovative School District. The goal of the program is to take elementary schools in the bottom 5 percent and turn them around within five years.
As U.S. News recently released their 2018 Best Colleges List, the issue of minority representation at selective colleges has on my mind a bit more than usual. I wasn’t surprised to find that diversity of student population, minority representation (whatever you want to call it) is not a factor in their ranking methodology.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the government would begin the process of terminating Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama administration policy that protects many young undocumented immigrants.
The decision to become a columnist this year was, in some ways, a very easy one.
For the second year in a row, UNC is in the Final Four.
Many people in America are unhappy with the direction that public education has taken over the last two decades. As one of these Americans, I knew that education would take a nose dive with the appointment of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education earlier this year.
This week, two N.C. General Assembly Republicans came together with two Democrats to sponsor a bill that “repeals” the controversial House Bill 2.
The confirmation of Betsy DeVos as U.S. secretary of education is quite possibly the worst thing to happen to education in the United States since No Child Left Behind, which touted unrealistic goals and magnified this country’s obsession with standardized test scores and the fallacy of proficiency.
As of today, we are seven days into the presidency of Donald Trump. In one short week, he has already begun destroying the country.
On Jan. 20, businessman and former reality television host Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. I cannot overstate how terrifying and dangerous this is. If at this point, you cannot understand why the reality of a Donald Trump presidency is terrifying to some people, I’ll let the next four years show you. But I digress, as we still have a little bit of time left with President Obama.
I can’t lie. Wednesday morning I woke up afraid. Afraid of the reality of Donald Trump being our next president. Afraid of what could happen to those who are Black, Muslim, Latinx, LGBTQ, women, immigrants, etc. For a while, I felt defeated. Very, very defeated. For a while, I felt like the world was ending.