I want to begin with some critical statistics. First, by approximately 2042, America will become a majority-minority nation, which is already the case for Americans under 16 since 2019. Second, in 2024,...
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COURTESY OF MARCI BERNEY
If you are reading this on your phone, let’s do an experiment. Take a minute to navigate over to your most used social media...
Israel, the ancestral home of the Jewish people, was founded as a modern state in 1948 as a haven for Jews fleeing persecution from Christian and Muslim lands. However, it is important to understand there...
On a bright and warm April afternoon in 1987, I was standing in the kitchen of our house in South Bend, Indiana when the wall phone rang. With a timbre that sounded like an army marching on gravel, the...
When someone mentions the health impact of smoking, most people immediately think of lung cancer or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). However, your heart and brain are also significantly...
On July 1, 2022, I closed the door on my Philadelphia row home and moved with my partner and our daughter into the Ford Transit campervan parked outside. After 18 months of designing and outfitting the...
The world has been watching a live-streamed genocide in Gaza for 130 days. Despite the media blackout Israel tried to impose, the world has been witnessing daily and hourly sheer destruction of lives...
On average, three women are killed by a current or former partner every day in the United States, and nearly two-thirds of those domestic violence homicides were committed with a firearm. The presence...
University Student Senate President
The class of 2024 entered St. Joe’s at an unprecedented time, meeting one another’s masked faces in residence hall lounges, interacting only for a moment in...
How St. Joe’s can be intentional about racial diversity
Like most Americans, I have had considerable experiences with race and racism, and I bring them with me. Growing up in almost all white suburbs...
A perspective of how to address black people and why
Black or African American? Some people prefer to be called African American, others prefer to be called black, and some people don’t mind at all....
A case study in normalizing ignorance
Narratives about campus racism, almost exclusively, rest in tales of individual injustice. Like clockwork, campuses experience a racist incident too difficult to recast:...
