By Senior Editor Tatiana Villamil Editor’s Note: The pictures in this article are used to help reflect the ethnic diversity of the Big Apple. The status of those photographed are not known. Thirteen days after election night, a CUNY J-School…
Author: Greggory Morris
How Hunter Millennials Stay Informed About News – Part 6, Last of the Series
By Contributing Writer Julia Suarez Can you imagine the time when you couldn’t access news through your smart phone, iPad or computer? There was a time when news was transported by carrier pigeon, hand-carried messages and the Pony Express. Finding…
Views on the Election and the Current State of America
By Contributing Writer Andrew Henry The results are in! Donald Trump is the presidential-elect and he seems close to be finalizing his cabinet selections as well as appointments to other key positions. It is clear that millions are happy. It…
If It Happened to Them, Could It Happen to You?
WORD Contributing Writer Avid Maldonao writes about the CENTRAL PARK FIVE film and it reads like a cautionary tale in the wake of the most controversial presidential election in American history.
Undocumented Students Want to Know If the Chancellor Stands With Them
By Ricardo Montero-Hernandez, December 14, 2016 Reporter Ricardo Montero-Hernandez was invited to a Roosevelt House forum where the concerns of undocumented students at CUNY were to be addressed. Some students, in turn, presented a petition to the office of the…
How Hunter Millennials Stay Informed About News – Part 5
By Contributing Writer Lesia Forde Do the comments of five students about how they view and interact with news and news sources reflect the overall temperament of that segment of the Hunter student body, 19 to 28 years old?…
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Film Review, 54th New York Film Festival
By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 The gloomy opening shot of a cold Manchester Bay poetically provides a scenic tipoff of writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s two-hour, 15-minute film about the doldrums and calamities of the film’s characters in this…
13TH Film Review, 54th New York Film Festival
By Senior Editor Kadia Goba, December 5, 2016 Once again, Ava DuVernay Executive Producer of the resounding SELMA, leads us through a sensitive but powerful cinematic voyage, this time, detailing the big business of mass incarceration and its menacing of…
CUNY J-School’s Post-Election Panel on Legal Protections and Rights of Undocumented Immigrants
The following passage is edited for context, accuracy and clarification for comments by Jojo Annobil, Executive Director, Immigrant Justice Corps, at the CUNY J-School forum, November 21. One-point-nine million of the undocumented population have lived in this country for…
OFF THE RAILS, Grand Jury Award Winner, DOC NYC Part – 2, Adam Irving Interview
Pictures courtesy of Adam Irving Adam Irving, researching ideas several years for his first full length documentary, was reading a Wikipedia article about people obsessed with trains and came across a Wikipedia article about Darius McCollum’s. “‘Darius McCollum has…