by Sofia Sayabalian
Having the opportunity to visit Reykjavík, Iceland was a special one. I always thought of Iceland as an isolated place–far, freezing, and frosted with whispers…
by Frank DiGirolamo
“Wow! … You just listened to my whole anthem.” It was late at night, years ago, on North Broadway in Capitol Hill. “Miguel” had just recited his life story to me for a good 20 minutes…
by Camila Torres
When I was a child, I was terrified of the dark. I hated going to sleep, because, once the lights turned off, the sheer possibility of encountering a monster kept me awake…
by Amina Malkin
When talking about religion, my father will sometimes talk about “the chosen people,” a title that Jewish people have historically adopted as a way to reference being descended from…
By Sheena Foster
When I first began to think about the prompt, The Courage to Belong, I must admit I was perplexed because my first thought was, don’t we already belong? We are human, a “custodial species” (Yunkaporta, 2020, p. 51), and as the late great Nikki Giovanni importantly observed, “we’re Earthlings”
By Dr. Ellen Kimbrough Alexandrakis
Texas has been a battleground over religion in public schools for decades. In 2009, the State Board of Education (SBOE) rewrote its science standards and fought over how, or if, to teach evolution. When scientists urged the board to provide more definitive evidence of evolution in the teaching standards…
By Allison Henrich
In 1886, twenty-four years after the first mathematics PhD was awarded in the United States, a woman finally earned one. Last year, we celebrated the centennial of Elbert Frank Cox earning a PhD, the first Black man in the world to do so…
