‘You don’t want no problems:’ Chance gets political
Jonathan Ballew, Asst. News Editor
March 12, 2018
Chance Bennet, better known as Chance the Rapper, made a highly anticipated appearance at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art on Monday. While the conversation between Chance and South Side journalist Adrienne Samuels Gibbs had a heavy focus on Chance’s artistic process, the two were not afraid to...
Graduate students look to band together
Benjamin Conboy, News Editor
January 29, 2018
Filed under News
Graduate students are taking the first steps in forming a student association that would hear grievances, complaints and demands from the graduate student body and take them up with the university. The group would be similar to how the Student Government Association (SGA) represents the student body...
Use your platform
Brenden Welper, Contributing Writer
January 16, 2018
Filed under Opinions
Silence is a lot of things. But in the case of last Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, silence was anything but golden. For the men of Hollywood, it was their first chance to denounce a dark secret that had finally been unearthed. Harvey Weinstein, Russell Simmons, Louis C.K. and so many others had used the...
Vincentian Prayer Breakfast recognizes DePaul activists
October 2, 2017
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Attendees of the Vincentian Prayer Breakfast gathered the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 27 to share a meal and prayer service while recognizing the recent accomplishments of the DePaul Dax Program. Read More »...
DePaul students’ Vincentian engagement of civil rights problems
May 17, 2015
Filed under Nation & World
At 5 p.m. on Friday, amid workers commuting from the Loop, a “train takeover” protest disrupted the already bumpy flow of the train ride. Among the ranks of veteran protestors, DePaul students as part of the Vincentians United (VU) faction and other social justice and activist groups joined in. Read More »...
Community conversations needed for police problems
May 10, 2015
Filed under Nation & World
On arguably the nicest day of the quarter, DePaul’s Black Student Union (BSU) lounged in a circle on the Quad hosting a “pop-up” conversation on topics ranging from police brutality to treatment of the oppressed that was occasionally swept away by strong gusts of wind. BSU’s mission for that day mirrored that of other groups around the countr...
Chicago activists sympathize with Baltimore
May 3, 2015
A “teach-in” was held on DePaul’s Loop campus Wednesday night to explain the controversial acquittal of a Chicago detective charged with manslaughter in the 2012 death of Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old African American woman. Read More »...
‘Black lives matter’: Q&A with Elijah Obasanya, Chicago police violence protestor
January 11, 2015
Filed under Nation & World
The nation looked on as the indictment decisions for the police officers responsible in the deaths of African-Americans Mike Brown and Eric Gardner came out on Nov. 24 and Dec. 3. Read More »...
Catcalling and the objectification of women
November 16, 2014
Filed under Opinions
A surprisingly large number of people touted similar reactions to the creator of the YouTube channel Red Pill Philosophy, who recently spoke about a video posted last week, unveiling the seriousness of street harassment, or catcalling, and its prevalence in women’s lives. “I just want to ...
Kathleen Hanna’s unique brand of activism
June 2, 2014
In the early 1990s, Kathleen Hanna was on the hunt to find a way to make her voice heard. An active feminist with strong opinions towards sexism, Hanna gravitated towards expressing her beliefs by participating in spoken word poetry and creating unconventional, controversial fashion shows; however, this...
‘Slacktivism’ gives impression of impact, but is Internet activism really effective?
Erin Yarnall and Shannon Marks
May 27, 2014
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In March of last year, 2.7 million people changed their Facebook profile pictures to a red equal sign in solidarity with the Human Rights Campaign to show they support marriage equality. The year before that, the “Kony 2012” video, which hoped to raise awareness of African militia leader Joseph Kony,...
