Spring 2025 Articles

Home Is Where the Black Woman Is

By Milan Rei Booker ’25 A search for home is something that is timeless, something that every individual desires: a place where they feel that they belong. This desire was prevalent in Black Americans, especially during and after the Great Migration, in which around one million Black Southerners migrated to the North due to racialContinue reading “Home Is Where the Black Woman Is”

The Necessity of Stomach-Curdling Violence in Depictions of Slavery

By Sam Viner ’26 Representing slavery through spoken word is impossible. The use of film and artwork is vital to capturing the horrors of slavery because they examine what words fail to describe. The classic maxim “Art speaks where words fail” rings true in the capability to represent slavery. When Kara Walker, a black contemporaryContinue reading “The Necessity of Stomach-Curdling Violence in Depictions of Slavery”