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Opal Lee: the grandmother of “Juneteenth”

Known as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee’s journey of social activism began when a mob of white rioters burned down her family home on the Juneteenth of 1939.

The first day jitters never stop

Not very long ago, I decided to attend my first Stute meeting. Well, I shouldn’t say that I decided, rather it was my freshman roommate who dragged me to the Howe Building that night to attend The Stute’s first General Body Meeting.

Let’s bring back cookbooks

When I was younger, I used to pour over my family’s old community cookbooks. I flipped through aged pages dotted with cooking stains, reading 90s-era recipes for tri-color pasta salad and chicken entrees.

Piper: The Greatest Short Film of All Time

After an insane amount of hype and anticipation, the sequel to Finding Nemo—Finding Dory—was released in 2016. Although it wasn’t viewed as a national sensation like the original, it did include something quite memorable, not within the movie, per se, but in what came before it.

Will I feel like I’m a teenage girl forever?

I am 21. This feels crazy to write because at this very moment I still feel like I’m 15. When I was 15, a lot of exciting things happened in my life.