FEATURE: Global Holidays in May
By Soyoung Kim The month of May is packed with holidays commemorated around the world. Usually these special celebrations...
Category: History
MAY 5th: The Karl Marx Bicentennial
By John Tustin May 5th 1818 was the day the father of communism was born. Karl Marx, a...
FEATURE: Saluting Women’s History Month
By Maymunah Ibrahim Happy March! Ah, this month, hands down, is probably my second favorite month of the...
BOOK REVIEW: “Persepolis”
By Sabiha Tafader Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is the autobiographical story of the author, a young woman...
WOMEN’S HISTORY: Muslim Feminist Begum Rokeya
By Fariha Ahmed Begum Rokeya was the pioneer of female education in Bangladesh. Due to strides made in the...
SPORTS: A History of the Soccer World Cup
The 2014 FIFA World Cup Winners: Germany The 1930 Uruguay Team The 1994 Brazilian Team...
POLITICS: The 2019 Indigenous People’s March
By Fariha T. Rahman Historically, it can be argued that modern Western imperialism reached its height...
BOOK REVIEW: Two Collections of Essential Surrealist Writings
By Carol Cooper Letters, Dreams & Other Writings, by Remedios Varo, translated by Margaret Carson (c) 2018, Wakefield Press,...
FEATURE: The Implications of the Big “X”
By Ruby Setara As the year winds down to a close, and many of our favorite holidays loom near,...
POETRY: “Bangladeshi Victory Day”
By Fariha Rahman Arrival of December When celebrations become endless Darkness is strictly forbidden, And many children become...
FEATURE: November Midterm Elections Make History
By Anna Rhoads The 2018 midterm elections, which took place on Nov. 6th, brought many people...
MCSM SPEAKS: About… Thanksgiving
By Fariha T. Rahman Leading up to the four day recess, of Thanksgiving Break, students are usually...
OPINION: Syria-The War that Continues to this Day
By Sabiha Tafader The current leader of Syria is...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
By Deborah George There are many historical figures that are praised or talked negatively about. People like Churchill...
TIMELINE: A Rewind of 2017
By Deborah George This year, like years gone by, has been one filled with events of joy, victory, failures...
MUSIC: *G.O.A.T.—A Streetwise Analysis of Princess Nokia
By Matthew Camacho (featuring Ricardo Camacho) Destiny Nicole Frasqueri had a hard life. From a young age she had...
FOOD: The Thanksgiving Meal
By Deborah George Introduction There are many accounts of the Pilgrims’s voyage to America. One such narrative is that...
WORLD POLITICS: Egypt and the “Arab Spring”
By Sami Ahmed Seven years ago a wave of revolutions swept the Middle East. Starting in Tunisia, mass...
Interesting People: What 2016 Taught One History Teacher
By Karla Davis Mr. Robert Cannobio came to MCSM in September of 2016, as a new 11th grade History...
ART: The Studio Museum’s 2016 Exhibition Makes Us Reflect Upon African History
By Karla Davis Observant eyes roamed around a space filled with the buzzing sounds of the 1970s. Paint...