The term “image” is kind of broad and almost specific term at the same time, of course that all depends on how you look at it. “Image” is something you always hear about, like “Oh, don’t they know that doing this will give them a bad image,” but what […]

Katrina Bell-Jordan is currently the Department Chair for the CMT department at NEIU. She has been at NEIU for almost 15 years and has taught numerous courses in the CMT department ranging from the 100 to 400 level. However, when asked about her career, Bell-Jordan will smile warmly and tell […]

The opening scene of Real Women Have Curves depicts a diligent young Ana Garcia, played by actress America Ferrero, hard at work before school, washing her windows. We get views of Latino laborers loading trucks to leave for work and many of the Latinas doing the same while caring […]

Independent staff members visited Seattle, WA for the 28th Annual ACP conference during the first weekend in March 2012. Staffers had an opportunity to meet and greet hundreds of other college writers, and professionals in the field of journalism, such as, Cheryl Phillips of The Seattle Times and Meredith Birkett […]

I am honored to serve as the station manager at WZRD Chicago, 88.3 FM at NEIU, which has the distinction of being Chicago’s only freeform radio station. Freeform radio is a very special style of radio that requires at least 6 different genres be played during one time slot […]

Dr. Lance Williams, professor and Assistant Director of the Jacob C. Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies (CCICS) has utilized both street knowledge and book sense to pave the way for African American men and women all over Chicago – but especially in the Kenwood and Englewood communities. Dr. Williams, […]

The inventiveness of euphemisms used by commentators, journalists, and actors of our modern political stage in their discourse can amaze even the most politically savvy American citizen. For instance, take the phrase “rescue package.” What does one think of when one hears “rescue package?” Does one think of a […]

The new television show, “Smash” which premiered February 6th on NBC, is a musical drama which guarantees random outbursts into song numbers throughout the show. The plot is a very typical Broadway style story about a girl named Karen from a small town in Iowa who moved to New […]

It happens almost every day – I sit down in the cafeteria to munch my delicious Subway footlong Spicy Italian, and the television above my table starts blaring the most god-awful music.  I hate MTVU, and I would rather have the loud, abrasive MTVU music cycle removed and replaced […]

#8220;For the black community, what we first need to realize is that we’re still a chained people. You don’t go through 300 years of slavery, and then you’re alright. We need to stop trying to forget it. We need to understand where we are in the process of healing. […]