By: Dora Haque The conversation of human exploration and leisure in outer space is usually discussed in the context of the future, generally considered beyond our time or along the lines of a sci-fi movie. However, in recent years military and commercial exploitation of space has been a topic of discussion. One such catalyst of […]
By: Sara St. Juste “The heartbeat of racism is denial. And too often, the more powerful the racism, the more powerful the denial.” – Ibram X. Kendi On Tuesday, January 15, 2022, Florida’s Senate Education Committee approved the “Individual Freedom” bill prohibiting private businesses and public schools from inflicting “discomfort” on White Americans during discussions about […]
By: Abigail Young One might expect that the state with the most death row exonerations[1] would be embarrassed to have facilitated such grave injustices. Not the Florida Supreme Court. In 2020, the newly comprised Florida Supreme Court held in State v. Poole that a death sentence no longer requires a unanimous jury recommendation, instead the jury only must […]
By: Katharine Rodriguez There is no other group of people in the world that deserve more representation than those who are unable to represent themselves: children. Prior to the 1970’s there were no laws or legislation criminalizing child pornography.[1]Considering that the media and film industries did not take off until the mid 1930’s, this was […]
