Elande Ain’t Neva Lied: USC’s Cardinal Divas made Black history! Why we mad?
Let’s explore the split in the Black community over what I thought was an obvious win for the people.
Tag Archive for: women
Society shouldn’t be too quick to praise ‘Lammily’
The media must not have a societal definition of ‘average’ because ‘average’ doesn’t exist.
Women’s advocacy must start with language
We have more than one million words in the English language, according to the Global Language Monitor. These words have the power to cajole, to persuade, to encourage. But at times, we fail to recognize that our words have the power to transform the course of a topic as heavy as women’s rights. A […]
Companies often capitalize on breast cancer awareness
Pink products can overwhelm consumers and detract from the seriousness of the disease.
CNN should answer for its inappropriate hormones story
After seven hours of backlash Wednesday, CNN took down an online article suggesting a relationship between women’s hormones and their voting patterns. While the story was both offensive and scientifically unsound, CNN should not have removed it. The network should own up to all of the news it posts—even poor stories—in order to maintain its […]
Sexual freedom still maintains gender bias
On Aug. 13, Helen Gurley Brown — legendary editor of the so-called women’s bible Cosmopolitan Magazine — died at the age of 90. To be honest, I had never heard of Mrs. Brown — and I’m sure that many people are in the same boat. But it’s almost impossible to ignore the impact that she […]
Despite national trend, women well represented in USC student government
Former USG chief of staff said USG has a comparable number of male and female students.
Analysis shows lack of women’s sports coverage in media
On March 14, Michael Messner, an expert in the sociology of sports at the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, spoke to Ms. Magazine about the lack of coverage of women’s sports in the media. He has been collecting research on the prevalence of women’s sports in the media, and comparing the coverage to […]
Commencement needs a female presence
1924 was a banner year for USC. The university held its first formal homecoming ceremony, inaugurated the first school of international relations in the country and, on a stifling Wednesday in June, gathered to hear its first female commencement speaker, Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, give her remarks. It is doubtful that the woman once dubbed, with […]
USC to add D-I lacrosse
The unofficial announcement of a women’s lacrosse team was made last Thursday.