Posts in Culture
Games That Will Have You Feeling Nostalgic

As college campuses across the country are sending students home for the remainder of the semester, many have found themselves with a bit more time on their hands than they had originally anticipated. While there are plenty of ways to stay productive - reading a book, organizing your room, going on a social distanced walk around the neighborhood - giving the brain a break has its benefits as well.

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"Calling All Earthlings" to Stay Indoors

Life’s a beach. Or, it was for Californians before social distancing- defined for the first time this month by Merriam’s Webster as “the practice of maintaining a greater than usual physical distance from other people or of avoiding direct contact with people or objects in public places during the outbreak of a contagious disease in order to minimize exposure and reduce the transmission of infection.”

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Women's Suffrage History on Display

A display case of letters written by the famous women’s rights activist, Alice Stone Blackwell, attracted a small crowd of museum visitors on Thursday March 5, during the grand opening of the “All Is Possible: Women’s Suffrage in California” Exhibition at the Santa Monica History Museum. The exhibition is open in tandem with Women’s History Month and will run until June 6.

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Gabriel Fernandez Docu-series brings Justice to Betrayed Boy

Streaming giant Netflix has released their most heartbreaking true crime series yet. The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez is a limited six-part series that explores the life and death of eight-year old Palmdale boy, Gabriel Fernandez. Fernandez's mother, Pearl Fernandez, tortured and killed him, with the help of her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre.

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By Black Feminists, For Black Feminists

In an old building in downtown Los Angeles, California on February 21, 2020 members of the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) gathered together and chattered before the beginning of the black history workshop. There are pictures set up around the room of iconic black figures: Assata Shakur, Claudia Jones, Nina Simone, Audrey Lorde, and Malcolm X.

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A Warrior Who Fought With Her Words: Toni Morrison

A collage is used to show the metamorphosis of the late Toni Morrison's physical self, from refined young, striking beauty to gorgeous, giggling gray-haired matriarch. The way her ​collage-like Black Book ​served as a shocking, artfully true compilation of American blackness,​ the documentary The Pieces I Am ​is just as true for the writer's life.

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