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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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The University of Chicago’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1892

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Successes and Joys of Black Students

Successes and Joys of Black Students

By Malaz Nour / February 17, 2023

Success is defined for me by its elusiveness. Sometimes it’s tangible: I can grasp it in the terms of money, grades, or works I want to produce within the year. Other times, it slips through my fingers...

A Poem by Lauren Dotson

A Poem by Lauren Dotson

By Lauren Dotson / February 17, 2023

it's raining at seven thirty dark. i’m crying in public at my pwi and   all you can do is stare. the street lights reflect off the sleek asphalt  and slick oil, a mother and her...

Reimagining Our Community: The Fight for a Black House

Reimagining Our Community: The Fight for a Black House

By Arsima Araya / February 17, 2023

“How can we have a Black House, if we can’t even have a Black meal,” –Charles Hendon, ’25  This scolding, yet endearing, quote is all I can think about when asked to write a preface to the...

The Past, Present, and Future for GRO

The Past, Present, and Future for GRO

By Marla-Fiona Anderson for GRO / February 16, 2023

The Georgiana Rose Organization (GRO) is a mental health-focused student organization dedicated to the individual, social, cultural and political advancement of Black women at UChicago. Our aim is to create...

Music of the Diaspora: the Makings of a Legacy and Tradition

Music of the Diaspora: the Makings of a Legacy and Tradition

By Nick Davillier / February 15, 2023

“Music is the weapon of the future”  –Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti “Shoutout my label, that’s me.”  –Dominique Armani Jones Two iconic quotes from two legendary artists. The first...

A (Sort of) Nigerian Princess Story

A (Sort of) Nigerian Princess Story

By Solana Adedokun / February 15, 2023

A major part of Black History Month is celebrating the achievements of Africans and African people across the diaspora. And there’s a lot of Black excellence–which is the idea that Black people who...

Poem: Gray Child

By Tori Harris / February 15, 2023

20 Years of ACSA

20 Years of ACSA

By Malaz Nour for ACSA / February 15, 2023

Intergenerational communities have been formed in Sudan’s أَحواش‎ (ahwash) for centuries as brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, and cousins with questionable degrees of relation run under...

The Audacity of Blackness

By Arianna Lafontant / February 15, 2023

After hearing Samantha Taylor’s poem “The Audacity of Blackness,” Arianna Lafontant wanted to permanently commemorate it in a short film. She recorded Sammie reciting her poem again at Rockefeller...

How the Fun Died: Mental Health and the Black Experience

How the Fun Died: Mental Health and the Black Experience

By Khadijat Durojaiye / February 14, 2023

“Where fun goes to die!”  Probably not something you want to hear in a psych ward.  These words were spoken by a man wearing a UChicago sweater sitting across the room from me during group...

Climbing the Ivory Tower: Views From the Top

Climbing the Ivory Tower: Views From the Top

By Marla-Fiona Anderson / February 14, 2023

The Entrance - Getting Accepted to the University of Chicago For most of my life, I didn’t even know that the University of Chicago existed. This changed during my senior year of high school, when I...

Art by Urunna Anayanwu

By Urunna Anayanwu / February 13, 2023

My piece was done with digital media and the art program Krita. In my piece, a white hand is holding a candle, melting the black woman’s skin, representative of the forceful removal of Africans centuries...

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