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Women’s Sports: empowerment or sexualization?

By Jayla Walker Katrin Davidsdottir in “The Body Issue”, published annually by ESPN. Photo by Benedict Evans. Female athletes are always engaged in battle, both on and off the court. It’s always been their femininity against their athleticism. Part of the ongoing conflict is how far women are willing to go to get an endorsement …

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“There Was a Time When I Could’ve Had You Shot”, Says Endicott

Welcome to week 3 of Annenberg Youth Academy. This week’s main focus was on missed representation in the media, as well as how people of color use the media to critique and dismantle popular discourse and propaganda. At the end of the week, we went to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where we learned …

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Hip Hop Culture is Failing Us and so is our Government

Welcome to week two of Annenberg Youth Academy, where we dive deep into important topics such as the music industry, mental health,  the role of civic engagement, and the incarceration of Japanese Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Let’s talk about it! Earlier this week, we discussed how the hip hop industry …

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