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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

SUMMER READING: ‘Between the World and Me’

SUMMER READING: ‘Between the World and Me’

By Alexandra Brunjes July 30, 2017

Striking a powerful balance between conversational and cautionary, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ autobiographical book “Between the World and Me” explores the experience of being black in America, meditating...

KARNA: Deconstruct Hidden Privilege

KARNA: Deconstruct Hidden Privilege

By Caitlin Karna March 24, 2017

“Hey. I’ll pay you $2 if you can play at least one song by a black person,” my friend said to me during our shift last week, where I manage and control the auxiliary cord. I take music very seriously...

OSIBAJO & BAH: More Than a Seat at the Table

OSIBAJO & BAH: More Than a Seat at the Table

By Anu Osibajo and Isatou Bah March 21, 2017

The most effective conversations on diversity and inclusion are the ones focused on solutions that take into account the nation’s history of discrimination. For this reason, conversations that have surrounded...

OSIBAJO & BAH: Resist Self-Segregation

By Isatou Bah and Anu Osibajo January 24, 2017

Last semester, as I looked around my dinner table at O’Donovan Hall, I found myself with a group of women who resembled me completely. For the first time, it dawned on me that there was a greater reason...

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GUPride has apologized for its handling of race in its club after its Mr. Georgetown candidate, fifth from right, was criticized for a spoken word poem on race he performed.

Mr. GUPride Apology Issued

By William Zhu September 30, 2016

Georgetown University Pride apologized on Sunday for a spoken word poem presented by Willem Miller — the group’s representative at last Friday’s Mr. Georgetown pageant — in which he described...

A Lesson in Hope In Becraft’s Story

By Fr. Matthew Carnes, S.J. September 16, 2016

If you make your way up to Holy Rood Cemetery on Wisconsin Avenue and climb toward the ridge, you will see a tree stump off to your left, set back 20 yards from the path. Peering at several small gravestones...

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Self-Care As An Act Of Resistance

By Crystal Walker May 20, 2016

Almost half my time at Georgetown has been a time of deep, resounding depression. Sophomore and junior year were some of my worst and best times at Georgetown. I have enjoyed this place, but I had...

Why We’re Not Running

By Alexander Bobroske, Connor Maytnier, and Sam Granville February 17, 2016

A couple of opinion pieces have been published in The Hoya questioning why there are not more candidates in the executive race for the Georgetown University Student Association. Potential candidates take...

Chicken? Madness.

Chicken? Madness.

By Philip Coffin February 12, 2016

Chicken Madness has always been the student body’s favorite dark-horse candidate for all Georgetown University Student Association elections. It represents students’ apathy for campus politics and...

Honor Black History

By The Editorial Board February 5, 2016

This fall, discussions on racial justice moved to the forefront of national dialogue, prompting rallies, riots and numerous conversations between administrators and students on college campuses across...

FLEMING-KLINK: Balancing Respect and Speech

FLEMING-KLINK: Balancing Respect and Speech

By Isaiah Fleming-Klink January 26, 2016

Before we left for break, I was sitting in my common room of New South 3 with our two RAs and some fellow NS3ers. We weren’t really talking about anything of particular note, but a little way into the...

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Solidarity Demonstrators Call for University Action

By Syed Humza Moinuddin November 12, 2015

Black student activists led around 250 students, faculty and community members in a demonstration on Red Square tonight to express solidarity with students of color experiencing racism in universities...

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