Understanding the Effects of Race on Bay Area High Schools
Though San Francisco is a largely progressive city, it certainly is not exempt from the racial issues plaguing contemporary America. These problems are especially apparent […]
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Michelle Obama: a Lawyer, an Activist, First Lady, and Now…
Michelle Obama, born Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, had a modest upbringing, growing up in Chicago’s working-class Southside. Her father was a pump operator for the city’s […]
Nothing More Critical Than Being a Critical Thinker
Looking down at all the supplies that I had hoarded for my art project, my elementary school teacher disapprovingly wagged her finger at me and […]
Intentional Bias Against Blacks in Drug Convictions
By 2008, 1 in 9 African Americans aged 35 and under were in prison. According to the ACLU, in 2011 roughly 85% of the […]
Phoebe Gloeckner: Former Lick Student and Author of the Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures, a fusion of a graphic novel and part non-graphic, non-genred writing by Phoebe […]
Vinge: A Sustainable City at the Intersection of Urban and Natural
Henning-Larsen Architects, a leading Danish design firm, is currently designing Denmark’s largest urban development project to date, Vinge City. Located north of Copenhagen, this city […]
LWHS Student Body Organizes and Leads Schoolwide Walkout
During the afternoon of November 10th, Suzanne Shimek – Lick-Wilmerding English teacher – sent out an email to her senior students with a subject that […]
Everytable Amends Financial Model to Serve Low Income Neighborhoods
Everytable is a new restaurant chain founded in LA with a mission to bring healthy food to both a affluent and poorer neighborhoods. Their current focus […]
Ecstasy: A Tool to Fight Mental Illness?
Ecstasy, Molly, Window, Adam. All of these names describe the same substance, the Schedule 1 restricted chemical compound Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA. A relatively common and […]
Eleanor Burke: the Walk-Entrepeneur
Eleanor Burke looks down at her wrist to see a low pixel screen flashing blue lights. In the midst of one of her many walks, […]
