Race has become something it was not originally intended for – a way to classify a human by nothing more than their skin color. Pinning down the definition of race has been a problem since it became a concept. According to an article written for sciencemag.org, race “has historically been used as a taxonomic categorization…
Running through the headlines in seemingly never ending streams are stories on racial tensions here in the United States. Fights for equality followed by the faces of young black men lost in the battle continuously flash across screens at home. As these tensions rise, awareness of the American issue of racism slowly begin to…
With race-related events like those in Ferguson and in Baltimore, police all over the country have had their actions watched closely. The University of Rhode Island Police Department works toward a safe and peaceful campus through community policing. Police Major Michael Jagoda said they are always “under the microscope,†adding that he knows what…
When people meet me, there is often an underlying tinge of curiosity in their gaze that is hard not to notice. Growing up surrounded by these inquisitive glances both conditioned me to recognize the question at hand and numbed me to the dehumanizing disposition of it. Â In a way, I like being unidentifiable; there…