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The Vision | The virality of black death

(04/21/15 2:54am)

On April 2, 147 Kenyans were massacred at Garissa University College. Shortly thereafter, a slew of pictures documenting the deaths of the men, women and students murdered at the university showered the internet. These images from the scene of the murder were beyond graphic — depicting dozens of slain bodies, piled one on top of the other, lying in their own blood. Yet, these images depicting unedited black death are not novel, particularly when they are produced by our media outlets today.



The Vision | A weight we all must carry

(09/17/14 2:38am)

L ast Thu rsday, editors at The Daily Pennsylvanian contested the use of trigger warnings in the classroom with this declaration: “We have come to Penn because we want to be challenged — to have our perspectives tested and refined. That sometimes requires that we grapple with material that we find disagreeable or even disgusting. Anything less would fall short of a true education.”


The Vision | (Re)visionary: why black students need a column in the DP

(09/02/14 5:41pm)

O n April 15, 1993, close to 14,000 copies of The Daily Pennsylvanian were removed from campus distribution sites. In the absence of nearly the entire circulation of the paper, members of Penn’s black student population declared that they would no longer tolerate “the blatant and voluntary perpetuation of institutional racism against the Black Community by the DP” and by virtue of the paper’s symbolism, the University at large.