By Fabiha Faruque For humanity in the advent of space exploration, the past three days have been a time of wonder, anticipation, and exuberant vitality. For the first time in the United States since 2011, an orbital spacecraft — SpaceX Crew Dragon — was launched this past Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center, carrying two…
By Ajmaanie Andre and Michelle Mairena On Monday of this week, the internet was set on fire after a video depicting an arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota was published. In the video, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, is handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white police officer. After pinning Floyd to the…
By Kelly Sanchez Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, many changes have taken place in schools. From end-of-the-year events being cancelled to adjustments in the world of testing, everything that has occurred between the months of March to May has been far from ordinary and much less expected. All school districts have had to make…
By Kymani Hughes A gruesome footage of the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery’s 25-year-old life went viral last week, showing him jogging on a suburban road in February as two armed white men arrive in a pickup truck. In the footage, the younger men tussle, gunshots boom, and Arbery staggers and then collapses. Additional footage…
By Khimmoy Hudson For centuries, people have primarily relied on face to face interaction as a method for teaching, disseminating information, and organizing — that has changed. Across the country, students everywhere are deviating from their normal routine and scheduled school day: The early morning rise, catching the bus, making the breakfast line, and the…
By Fabiha Faruque A week ago, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the continuation of virtual school — but with a twist. All schools in Florida will remain closed as the school shutdowns have been extended into next month up until at least April 15. “So, all we’ve said basically to the K-12 schools is we’re…
By Devin Dubon On the eve of the Senate vote that will likely acquit the President, Donald Trump delivered his third state of the union address on the night of February 4th, 2020. In a speech complete with reality show flourishes and economic accomplishments, President Trump laid out his reelection strategy, as he tried to…
By Jaylyn Gonzalez “When they go low, we go high.”—Michelle Obama, 2016. Three years after more than 4 million women around the country and world flooded the streets in protest of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, demonstrators once again came together for the fourth-annual “Women’s March.” Today, January 18, 2020, marchers gathered across the country taking…
By Rhobie Toussaint On Friday, October 11th, a press release announced that 25 teachers were chosen to be “high school scholastic fellows” for the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF). Out of these 25 fellows selected nationwide, two came from the state of Florida — one of them being our very own Peter Melton, Miami…
By Devin Dubon In a crowded field of over 20 major candidates, it’s hard for any one Democrat to stand out for the 2020 presidential nomination. Yet Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, has attempted to fix this problem with a grassroots campaign strategy that attempts to put him in front of as many…