Zachary Weaver Staff Writer On Thursday, Feb. 18, the UNCG Board of Trustees voted to remove former NC Governor Charles B. Aycock’s name from UNCG’s Aycock Auditorium. The decision came after more than a year’s worth of discussion. Back in 2014, the Board of Trustees created an ad hoc committee for the purpose of issuing detailed reports on the matter of the … Continue reading Goodbye, Aycock: History moves forward
Quinn Hunter Layout editor I am black and proud. There, I said it. I have confessed. I am not ashamed of my skin or heritage, and I will wear my natural hair proudly. But I don’t want kids, and it isn’t because I don’t like them. I love children — I have a seven-year-old cousin that I adore. I cannot have children, though, because … Continue reading This is why I can’t have kids…
Alexea Brown Staff Writer Quinn Hunter is a graduating senior at UNCG and a talented artist whose passion lies in her ability to use art — specifically ceramics — to tell stories about the experiences she’s had as a young black woman growing up in the South and the politics that inform her world. Though she chooses to use ceramics as her mode … Continue reading Quinn Hunter: Politics meets art
Quinn Hunter Senior layout Editor Taylor Swift. How do I even begin to explain Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift is flawless. She has seven Grammys and a white Audi. I hear her legs are insured for $40 million. She does car commercials in China. Her favorite movies are from Disney. She met Ed Sheeran at an award show and he told her she was pretty. She … Continue reading The debate of a generation: Taylor Swift or nah
Quinn Hunter Layout Editor Many things have been said about creating art. Coming into college, I knew none of those things, and I am sure neither do a bulk of the first-year art students. So here is the very best of 3.25 years of art school in two columns. You won’t find great ideas in the clouds. Ideas are not hiding somewhere, and you have … Continue reading Art still has rules! Notes from a senior
Quinn Hunter Layout Editor I do not and will never condone the violence that has happened in connection to the #BlackLiveMatter movement. I also recognize that my colleague above has made some valid points; however, the way in which those points have been made is in a condescending tone, devaluing all that has been said. You have not known silence, until one who can never … Continue reading Defending #BlackLivesMatter
Featured poets from our staff and the community. Quinn Hunter Layout Editor Flowers won’t grow In this barren place Dirt ain’t got enough of nothin’, No mount of water God bring rain God bring rain My cup runneth over Pink Polyethnen sit cocked On the window sill Fresh ones don’t keep long ‘nough No mount of sugar God bring rain God bring rain My cup … Continue reading Poets’ pick
Until the age of eight I had absolutely no idea that I was black. While this may sound abnormal and strange, the truth is that I had no idea I was a different race. I grew up in a solid middle-class household with two parents and an older brother. Before I knew my race, I did not feel the weight and almost shame of my … Continue reading Lessons all little black spots have to learn
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