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GRAPHIC: STEPHANIE SAVELA ’25/THE HAWK

‘Is she Indian or is she Black?’

Sophia Bertsch '27, Guest Columnist September 18, 2024

“Is she Indian or is she Black?” Donald Trump asked July 31, questioning current Vice President Kamala Harris’ race at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention. The eldest members...

Editorial: INT 151

The Hawk Staff November 2, 2022

INT 151 is critical for students because it is meant to get us to talk about race, racism and inequality in our very first year on campus. St. Joe’s is a predominantly white institution (PWI) that has,...

Meaningless political circus?

Susan Liebell, Ph.D. March 30, 2022

Race and gender in the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Last week’s raucous Senate spectacle centered on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s identity, the first Black American woman...

Amber Abbas, Ph.D., associate professor of history, presenting for the DEI Lecture series via Zoom on Nov. 10. PHOTO: TAYLER WASHINGTON ’22/THE HAWK

DEI Lecture Series: South Asian American identity

Tayler Washington November 16, 2021

Amber Abbas, Ph.D., associate professor of history, presented “Mistaken for ‘Muslim:’ Identity and Belonging in South Asian America,” a lecture exploring the identity and background of South Asians...

The journey to craft my narrative; Discovering who I am and where I come from

Connor Mignano September 21, 2021

For years, I had always wanted to research my family history. I had seen advertisements from companies like Ancestry and 23 and Me, which featured people from all walks of life proclaiming the success...

Thames used the eyes of each interviewee as the intro to his series.
GRAPHIC COURTESY OF KHALIL THAMES ’21

The Forever Me Project: Speaking out about mental health

Allison Kite and Natalie Nevins September 8, 2021

In order to foster open conversations about mental health and the challenges people face, Khalil Thames ’21, released his “Forever Me” project in May 2021. Thames’ “Forever Me” project is...

From left to right: Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, Sister Alison McCrary and Lezley McSpadden speak in the Cardinal Foley Campus Center on Feb 5. PHOTO: MITCHELL SHIELDS ’22/THE HAWK

Panel discusses criminal justice system and the Catholic Church

Angelique Frazier February 11, 2020

A panel discussion sponsored by the Faith-Justice Institute on Feb. 5 focused on the need for the Catholic Church to better respond to the disproportionate impact of the criminal justice system on...

Being black and Dominican

Being black and Dominican

Roderich Martinez February 4, 2020

A narrative on race from a Dominican student The term Afro-Latinx, a more recent adaptation of the phrase Latino for anyone who chooses to remove gender binaries from their identity, is used to describe...

The constructions and formation of identity

The constructions and formation of identity

Terry Severe January 28, 2020

A narrative from a Caribbean-American student Being born in Miami, Florida and living my first few years in Haiti, I’ve always had a strong sense of my roots while also assimilating to a land that I...

Cage, Monroe and Morales

Cage, Monroe and Morales

Hadassah Colbert January 22, 2020

The importance of black people in sci-fi and fantasy I am a professed comic book nerd as well as a lover of all things science fiction and fantasy. Growing up, I read “The Lord of the Rings,” “The...

Listen to students of color

Listen to students of color

Hadassah Colbert December 10, 2019

...And you might learn something Recently on two separate occasions, I had my boyfriend and best friend, who are both black, voice that they felt their white group members in class were not listening to...

Don’t touch my hair

Don’t touch my hair

Hadassah Colbert December 3, 2019

A black girl's experience with hair “Don’t touch my hair when it’s the feelings I wear... Don’t touch my crown, they say the vision I’ve found. Don’t touch what’s there, when it’s the feelings...

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