The leak is a defining event in American politics. Never before has the Supreme Court been undermined by a leak. The very word reminds the young American of Snapchat’s Dailymail. A cheap scheme used by tabloids to sway public opinion. The Supreme Court is supposed to be an impartial, legal institution. It is unaffected by political opinion. Such a political scandal threatens the authority of the court.

There is a reason groupthink is often labeled as a consequence of combined ignorance rather than a benefit of shared thoughts. With over one billion active users in over 150 countries worldwide, we are all very familiar with the kind of videos posted on the social media platform TikTok. From cooking instruction videos to 'get ready with me' videos, founder Zhang Yiming nearly doubled his billion-dollar fortune due to home-struck users and a flood of content on the platform.

Since the Roe v Wade decision, many people across the internet, particularly white women, are claiming that Margaret Atwood is an 'oracle' based on her best-selling novel The Handmaid's Tale. Many black and brown folks on Tiktok have already stated why this is not the case.

The Great Resignation is a phenomenon that is happening across the world as many Americans begin to create a life for themselves outside of the workforce. However, when recalling the history of the black American experience with jobs, I can’t quite ignore the significance of jobs in the Black American household.

Twenty-seven school shootings mark the midpoint of 2022. An ambiguous number, much like twenty-seven apples in a barrel or twenty-seven miles to a gallon. It is already disturbing that such horror is allowed to roll off the tongue with an anonymous descriptor. Twenty-seven.

So many people seem to post about supporting social movements, but how many of these people are taking real actions in their everyday lives? The carefully crafted persona of appearing to be an activist has taken over social media, with people pretending to care about topics that they do not take any initiative to be an ally to in their real lives.

As COVID guidelines decrease, many schools are lifting their year-long mask mandates. However, something strange seems to be happening that continues to puzzle teachers and administrators- although students fully understand that the threat of contracting COVID-19 has nearly diminished, they still prefer to keep their masks on. If COVID numbers are low, what is preventing these students from de-masking?

So what is the school-to-prison pipeline? To summarize, the school-to-prison pipeline is where students can go through the process from school to prison and their own situations aren’t being handled within the principal's office anymore but rather by law enforcement. This criminalization can affect these students to drop out early or to be held back.

Judge Jackson was not the only one to shed a tear at yesterday’s confirmation hearing after Cory Booker’s empassioned speech. “I’m just sitting here saying, ‘Nobody’s going to steal my joy. Nobody’s going to make me angry,” Booker says to Jackson after she has been relentlessly questioned for over 20 hours in the last 3 days. “You have earned this spot. You are worthy. You are a great American.”

In 2019 congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey co-sponsored the most ambitious climate legislation the United States had ever seen. Activists from all across the country made a prominent push to pass the Green New Deal proposal through the United States Senate. This proposal was unlike any other climate legislation to have been debated within the halls of Washington DC, with it directing an estimated $10 trillion towards redesigning the US economy.

Every generation has suffered through their own unique crises. The Greatest Generation fought to survive both the Depression and World War II, at the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives and devastating financial losses. While Baby Boomers grew up with the best economy in modern U.S. history and were also enriched by dramatic progress in civil rights, science and the arts, they still lived under the threat of atomic bombs, the Vietnam War and lingering inequality.

On September 18th, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died. Which was such a huge loss for plenty of reasons. One, she was a huge feminist advocate and an amazing human.

Although the Black Lives Matter movement was founded in 2013, the catalyst for these monumental 2020 protests was George Floyd’s murder at the hands of 4 police officers on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis, United States.

Sustainable and ethical fashion is more in demand now than ever, and the fast fashion industry is falling under ever-increasing scrutiny. In an effort to save themselves, many of the first world's favorite retailers have begun making promises to do better in an effort to remain relevant with today’s market.

I am a mere moving particle in the cusp of a movement. A movement taking place simultaneously around the world. A controversy for the ages. A needed break to the surface. The day is June 5th, about a week since the video of a black man being silenced indefinitely challenged the silence of our existence.

Anti-blackness, racism, and police brutality in the United States are nothing new; rather, these issues are only now beginning to become more openly recorded and distributed. They are just now being more openly discussed and fought against by people outside of just black and BIPOC communities.

Honestly, I never even thought it would reach Louisiana. Well, it’s not that I never thought it would come, I invitely knew it would, but it's almost like nothing ever happens here, like I’m always watching from a distance, with all the disasters having a strange veil in front of them that I can’t quite see through. But that day, the veil wasn’t dropped, but instead it crashed directly into me.