"It's not racism, just preference " 1/04/2016 Ree Hughes 0

"People prefer people who are like them." That is the gist of a lot of comments beneath a YouTube video I found after reading an ...

The Wiz Live 12/04/2015 Ree Hughes 0

I did what I told myself not to do: I looked at the comments section. Let me start from the beginning, ever since the moment I heard ther...

The War on Women 10/12/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Today started like any other Monday, until I got on Facebook. There a friend and I engaged in a discussion concerning placing women in a bo...

Remember When A Chunk of the U.S. was Owned by Spain? 10/06/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Shutterstock.com / Iryna Rasko Today, I found this nifty timeline of Hispanic influence in the United States, and while I hope to be a...

Hispanic Heritage Month 9/15/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month; it was started as Hispanic Heritage Week by President Lyndon Johnson in 1968 and expa...

I am part of "The Problem" 9/07/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Sometimes I think (and less frequently actually say) things that sound outrageous, even to me. I mull over the words that have passed throu...

Book Review: Mullumbimby 8/13/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Mullumbimby is a novel by Melissa Lucashenko . The novel is set in the real town of Mullumbibmy, Australia. The town was originally inha...

Stop Trying to Define My Personality... 7/21/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Book Review: Kindred 7/19/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Most books fit in a spectrum within 1 of 3 categories: (1) I couldn't finish it, (2) it was entertaining enough to finish, (3) I could...

Poverty, Parks, and Privilege: Seeking Equality and Environmental Justice in Urban Planning 7/18/2015 Katie 0

It is important when writing about cultural observations and intersectionalities of race and class to first consider one’s own subjectivity...

Remembrance 7/15/2015 Ree Hughes 0

The death camps of the Holocaust were a means of murdering millions of people, predominately Jews, under Nazi rule.  Before the actual deat...

Brainwashing Our Children: Subliminal Messages in Cartoons 7/06/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Photocredit: ShutterStock.com /  mtlapcevic The villains wear black and/or are dark and/or are ugly because children have to know who t...

Book Review: Purple Hibiscus 7/05/2015 Ree Hughes 0

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer who debuted her talents with Purple Hibiscus . The novel takes place in Nigeria during a tim...

Presidential Candidate Donald Trump 6/29/2015 Ree Hughes 0

In 2013, I was thoroughly disgusted at America's reaction to the first Indian-American Miss America, Nina Davuluri . Now we have Miss ...

Why I'm Tired of Being a Black Woman 6/23/2015 Ree Hughes 0

In school they teach you that if you work hard you can be whatever you want. And I did work hard... I was on the honor roll every seme...