May 23, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 110) • Page Image 9
… within the 3). And also, of those three characters, two of them were villains. Which was a nice change from having people of color fulfill the racist villain tropes in movies (i.e. Arab terrorists…
…? Sometimes it feels as if I have to con- stantly prove that I am competent enough to sit in the same class as other students. Coming out of high school I knew that there would be some challenges I would…
… work ten times harder can be discouraging. However, one thing I continue to remember as I walk around campus and see other students that have similar stories to my own is that we are still here. We…
… even more important, as a black woman, I am even more motivated to do well because not only do black students make up about 4 percent of the population at the Uni- versity of Michigan, but the…