Before there was Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, there was Diego Maradona. Maradona’s charisma and character made him globally loved around the world. Some individual professional athletes transcend a sport, but no one did like Diego Armando Maradona. Diego Maradona was born on October 30th, 1960 in Villa Fiorito, a […]
Iran is in need of economic relief, yet president-elect Joe Biden still needs to decide how to reverse the sanctions on Iran if he plans on rejoining the nuclear deal. Iran also has a part to play before the elections in June. Any attempt will have to be made quickly […]
Dr. Frank L. Douglas explained what it feels like to deal with institutional racism in America. which can lead to discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education. Douglas told of his experience handling preconceived biases including what to do when confronted by racist attacks and […]
SUNY Old Westbury’s Student Government Association and the Women’s Center held a virtual screening and discussion session about the documentary, Not Done: Women Remaking America on November 10th. The new film directed by first-timer Sara Wolitzky was shown on October 27th on PBS and it was released by Verizon’s Future Fund. This […]
Over the course of this past year, we have been inundated with the presidential election and the race to the White House. Though the projected winner is already announced, the aftermath is what worries me the most. After four long arduous days from election day, Joe Biden was announced as […]
As many schools continue to provide the option of in-class or remote learning, parents are starting to wonder if their children are being taught about body image and food intake. The educational system needs to work together with parents and be responsible for the wellbeing of their students and children, […]
Women have populated our churches for decades, but very few are ever recognized as ministers and did not exist as pastors or reverends. In today’s world, women are successfully navigating these masculine waters but are still met with great bias and resistance. Women have always been forgotten and silenced in […]
Amazon recently launched an online pharmacy to expand their trillion dollar company. It will offer services such as ordering and filling prescriptions in addition to delivery of medications by mail. With an increase in consumers ordering medications by mail during the COVID-19 lockdown, the pharmaceutical industry has become even more […]
Popular social media apps such as Instagram and Twitter have recently updated their platforms, but users aren’t too fond of the new features. This may be a problem for these major companies, being that they are losing their uniqueness and are in competition with each other as well as other […]
The “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” exhibits approximately eighty works of disillusioned artists, including Jackson Pollock, Dorothy Dehner, Henri Matisse, Saburo Murakami. After the chaos of World War II, artists were in disbelief that they could not believe that humanity had the capability of repeating history since World War I […]
