Rey Perez is a major in Communications and a senior at Nova Southeastern University. He is from Summit, New Jersey and has been a part of Student Media since his first year in college. The holiday season is a time for family, friends, love and that good old holiday cheer. However, last year, another […]
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Not your father’s Cuban politics
Cubans in politics have been a regular occurrence in South Florida for decades, but nowhere is it stronger than Miami. Some Cubans line the streets and wave Trump flags at cars, others put on a nice suit and a sad face and pretend to care about the island nation. No matter what people might […]
Right-wing extremism rampant in D.C. protests, BLM banner burned
On Dec. 12, Trump supporters took to the streets in Washington D.C. to protest the results of the 2020 presidential election. The protest turned violent, causing the reported vandalization of four churches and resulting in more than three dozen arrests, according to the Washington Post. These events seemingly foreshadowed what would later occur in the […]
A nation looking to heal
On Nov. 7, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris addressed a crowd of supporters outside their headquarters in Wilmington, DE. The speech that was delivered that night gave the American people a glimpse of what the next four years would be like. It was a speech that will be remembered for years to […]
This week in sports history – January 5, 2020
Jan. 4 First Black Baseball league In 1920, the first all-Black baseball league in the U.S. was organized. The National Negro Baseball League would provide Black players with a diamond to play on until the game would become desegregated in 1947. Jan. 5 Don Shula announces his retirement On a warm Miami afternoon in […]
The house that Davie built
On Griffin Road, just a block away from Davie Road, sits the Old Davie School Historical Museum. It’s stucco walls have covered the same ground since 1918 — over 100 years ago. The schoolhouse has survived hurricanes, the Great Depression, the 1947 flood and almost becoming a bus loop. It has held decades of classes, […]
Freaky features: It came from New England
It’s haunting season and people of all ages across the country are venturing to the “horror” tab of Netflix and Hulu for the first time since last year only to be utterly disappointed at the quality of horror on the steaming services. Sometimes, it feels like you could find better horror at the bottom of […]
Bath & Body Works holiday candles for schmucks
I’ve always been a sucker for the holidays. There’s just something about it that has always appealed to me. I’ll do the gingerbread houses, stockings and the cookies. I’ve done everything at least once, except for Hallmark movies. I’m not ashamed to march right into a Bath & Body Works and smell the best holiday […]
Kappa Delta Pi Omega Theta wins the Professional Development Chapter Program Award
Last month, it was announced that NSU’s international honor society in education, the Kappa Delta Pi (KDP) Omega Theta chapter, won the 2019-2020 Professional Development Chapter Program Award. The award recognizes KDP chapters who have made notable advancements in the field. KDP Omega Theta put together five professional development presentations with participants selected from […]
The Cuban issue
Just a couple of days before Nov. 3, I drove by Tropical Park in Miami. I stopped at a light for what had to have been two minutes, but it was two minutes that changed my whole outlook on the upcoming election. Prior to this, I had been very keen on staying as far away […]