Tituba, one of the first people accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, was not Black. Over the next three centuries, writers made her Black anyway. Tituba, an enslaved woman living in the house of Reverend Samuel Parris, is described as “Indian” in the 1962 court records. She was an Indigenous woman, and Puritans shaped her […]
During the week of Sept. 27, a new object appeared outside Harvard’s Smith Campus Center: a temporary red phone booth. Inside, passersby found instructions to call their state representatives and discuss bills to regulate artificial intelligence. Ari Rosenthal, a Harvard Graduate School of Education graduate and co-founder of the Massachusetts AI Action Network, spent the […]
The drinks that we choose can say a lot about us. Do you like lemons? Cranberries? Sweet or sour? Often, what we choose to consume reflects who we are or are trying to be. Maybe you pick something fresh to feel like a “clean girl”; maybe you choose a bitter, serious drink to pretend that […]
Lately, it seems like we’ve been seeing a lot of Sydney Sweeney. The blonde, blue-eyed actress has been all over everyone’s feed in controversial advertisements, from Dr. Squatch to American Eagle and, most recently, Novig, a sports-betting company. Sweeney seems to lose more and more clothing as the advertisements continue, and backlash to such risqué […]
