The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage on June 26, prompting celebrations nationwide and temporarily hijacking practically everyone’s Facebook Newsfeed.  While most...

After the capture of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old alleged shooter who murdered nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the media began to look...

Rachel Dolezal is a former NAACP leader, a graduate from the historically black Howard University and previously worked as an African studies professor at Eastern Washington University. With a caramel-colored...

Police brutality has become a central piece of media coverage in the U.S. this year, and with the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Harris and Freddie Gray, it seems that police brutality...

Some people love talking about it, while others detest its presence in conversation. Some people giggle about it, and some find themselves scratching their heads in an attempt to understand what it means. When...

Looks of pity, concern or just plain confusion confronted me over the past four years as I told people what I was majoring in.  Have you considered majoring in engineering instead? Your parents are...

Coal, like the fossilized vegetation that makes it, must also die. It will not be killed by tree huggers but by economics. A recent Politico article explains it is becoming too costly to produce...

The perpetual cycle of poverty knows no bounds, and though many draw lines, poverty’s effects penetrate virtually all aspects of life. With the implementation of Common Core testing, the negative effects...

Author, civil litigation attorney, law professor, United States senator and U.S. Secretary of State. But all you see is a dang scrunchie? When we talk about Hillary Clinton, who announced her decision...

During President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural address, he said, “In a free government the demand for moral qualities should be made superior to that of talents.” While an agreeable statement,...

On April 25, a devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal’s city Kathmandu. The disaster was followed by several aftershocks, including a 7.3 magnitude shock on May 12, according to an article...

Media access is something that rarely crosses the mind of most people, unless they’re journalists, but it deeply affects everyone’s lives. When journalists don’t have proper access to the sources...