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What led to a decrease in suicides during quarantine

Sam Hyatt

Everybody remembers what it was like to be in quarantine in March and April of 2020. At first, we thought two weeks of staying at home and not seeing friends…

Journalists are not ‘the enemy’

Sam Hyatt

The media is an ever-growing source through which people can obtain the latest news about current events happening in their city, country and around the world. Articles and videos are…

White History vs American History: why there’s no “White History Month”

Mary Hicks

Growing up in predominantly white neighborhoods, white churches, homeschooled, and surrounded by other white homeschoolers, I have often heard the question which those who ask don’t seem to want to…

Accountability is required for change

Mary Hicks

The commonly heard excuse, “I was just following orders,” is the defense Nazi commanders gave during the Nuremberg trials. It is true that many of us as humans are…

Black History Month

Allison Reynolds

As the United States moves into the second month of the year, we also move into the annually celebrated Black History Month. People have been celebrating Black History Month for…

Honoring the fallen

Wren Brooke

Though it sent a shock through the Oakland, California community when a recently erected bust of Breonna Taylor was found vandalized just after Christmas, even worse fortune three days later…

Winthrop Student-Athletes March for Black Lives

Sean Miller

Winthrop Athletics’ Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Working Group organized a march from Eden Terrace parking lot to campus green to support a mural unveiling event by the student-led NAACP on…

The pros protest

Matthew Shealy

Peaceful protests have been seen all over the nation this summer as Americans plead for social justice, equality and an end to systemic racism. The sports world has been no…