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Fort Tryon Park

Maria Walks: Fort Tryon Park

  New York City is home to some of the most vibrant and bustling parks. Greenery is a reprieve from the often cold, stark city blocks that we’re permanently attached to as urban dwellers. Human nature ushers us to seek peace and calm, surrounded by the lush, tranquil environment parks...

both ways

Rachel, Caitlyn and Why We Can’t Have It Both Ways

  Culturally and biologically, Rachel Dolezal is blacker than Caitlyn Jenner is female. Most of my fellow liberals will not like that statement, but consistency is not popular. Ask LeBron James.   Columnist David French writes about a phenomenon I have noticed as well. There seems to be an absolute...

Hope Solo

What About Hope Solo and Women Batterers?

  U.S. women’s soccer has no systematic, decades-long history of ignoring domestic violence the way the NFL does. It’s not as popular as the NFL either. Professional women soccer players are just as much role models as NFL players are. Society should advocate for male victims of domestic violence and...

7th avenue

Maria Walks: 7th Avenue Sightseeing

  “Until lately the best thing that I was able to think of in favor of civilization, apart from blind acceptance of the order of the universe, was that it made possible the artist, the poet, the philosopher, and the man of science,” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. once said. Civilization,...

Mad Men

Was Mad Men Good For You?

    Mad Men is the reason I watch so much television. If it wasn’t for Matthew Weiner’s fictional opus I don’t know if I would be as big a television fan. If I remember correctly, Mad Men premiered during my junior year of college and I became fascinated by...

Promising Young Rapper Chinx Shot To Death In A Drive By

A tragedy took place on Queens Boulevard at 4am Saturday night/Sunday morning. Coke Boys up-and-comer Chinx (formerly known as Chinx Drugz) was reportedly shot in his car when another car droving ride alongside them fired into his vehicle. Chinx and and another passenger who has not yet been named were...

anti-hero

The Ascent of the Female Anti-Hero

The ‘man-child’ phenomenon has existed for a while — in laymen’s terms: a grown man, nearing the age of 30, who remains unacceptably reliant on others for basic life functions. Buzzfeed did the honors of compiling a list of 23 characteristics that define a man-child, perhaps at the helm, “he...

culture war

Why Conservativism Lost The “Culture War”

  In the United States, culture war generally refers to a perceived conflict between conservative and liberal values. Beginning in the 1990s, culture wars have influenced the debate over public school history and science curricula in the United States, along with many other issues.   The expression “culture war” entered...

Why Millennial Women Are More Successful Than Ever

There are 60 million millennials in America, and half of them are women, according to census figures. Millennial women are truly a ‘force to be reckoned with.’ They are ambitious, educated, enthusiastic, and determined to succeed in a world that has predominantly been ran by their male counterparts. The women who compose Generation...