By Diana Villano Adolescence can be the most frantic yet sublime experience in a person’s life. As kids, we tend to wonder what tomorrow, and the years to follow, will bring. Young adults reflect on their teenage years as the prime of their rebellion or the emergence of independence and discovery. For Natalia Oseida it […]
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Profile on Huifen Li By Sheema Zaira If you attended the National Honors Society induction ceremony, chances are your eyes were quickly drawn to the only girl there wearing a suit, probably looking more sophisticated than the hosts themselves. If you’re a student at Queens School of Inquiry, you may have heard a passionate pianist […]
By: Reina Copeland We never really know people until we truly talk to them. When people look at Giannie Arana, they see a five-foot five-inch white girl who is incredibly attractive. As strikingly beautiful as she is, there is more beneath the surface of Giannie, who is sixteen years old and resides in Queens, New […]
A Profile on Nicole Santiago By Sheema Zaira Where do we go when we die? From wise philosophers to people approaching their 80s, everyone ponders this question sometime in their life, but none as deeply as Nicole Santiago. As she squints her eyes and gives me a deep “hmmm,” Nicole bets the afterlife involves some […]
Profile of 16-year- old Reina Copland on her journey of spreading awareness with her own ways of advocacy By Giannie Arana A fellow Afro-Latina sister who has undergone the coercions and what could be called the deficits of being in a marginalized group since the day she was born. As she is a “boricua” (Puerto-Rican), […]
After backlash from pro-Israel organizations, Santa Ana’s ethnic studies courses discussing Palestine were put on hold. “You’re asking us to erase a people off the face of the earth.” SHAANTH NANGUNERI Raija Hammad’s eyes wandered across her Santa Ana classroom. As one of the only Palestinian American students, she was hopeful for her high school […]