For this weeks topic I wanted to talk the School-To-Prison Pipeline. An Ohio woman by the name of Zakiya Sankara-Jabar recently dealt with this when her preschool son, Amir, was suspended from his pre-K program. The claim for his suspension was that he was having problems focusing on activities and transitioning from one to the next and he was…[Read more]

The picture I have chose for my photo share is of a charter school on UCSD’s campus called the Preuss School. I wanted to talk about this because I know that many people at our school are unaware that we have a connecting middle and high school directly next to us, sponsored by our university. This school is a middle through high school for…[Read more]

This week I chose to look at some political satire on the Black Lives Matter movement that has been happening across the United States. This picture is of a comic strip that is commenting on the idea of white people saying “All Lives Matter” in response to this movement. When I saw this, it initially affected me because of how ignorant that phrase…[Read more]

For this weeks post I have included two picture showing the racial segregation of Washington D.C. throughout the past couple of decades. The first picture shows the population of Washington D.C. in 1990 and the second picture is from 2016. The blue dots represent blacks, red dots represent whites, green dots represent asians, yellow dots represent…[Read more]

The picture I have chosen is an example of voluntourism, which is something that we talked about in class, but I wanted to look through the internet and find some concrete examples of these types of pictures. The plethora of content that I found was honestly astonishing. This specific picture was from a parody show that highlights the reasons why…[Read more]