On her first day of seventh grade, Alex Mieszala ’20 was met with the same question every time she introduced herself to someone: “What are you?”
When she told them, she would always receive the...
Yes, technically speaking, I am of African-American descent. But I am not black. Or at least that is what I am told. It must be because I can’t dance. Or because I can't sing. Or maybe because I try...
The African-American Alumni Network welcomed guests into the Feldman-Horn Gallery Feb. 25 for its third annual Jazz and Poetry Lounge with jazz standards performed by the Jazz Explorers band and foods...
The BLACC will screen the satirical film “Dear White People,” which focuses on a group of four black students attending a primarily white college, from 2 – 5 p.m. Feb. 21 at the Ahmanson Lecture...
What is Kwanzaa?
In a poll of 388 Harvard-Westlake students, 59.5 percent didn’t know.
"I’m not sure if it’s just for people from Africa or African-Americans in general," Aliyah Daniels ’14, who...
Earlier this month, I had a very personal and inspiring conversation with Harvard-Westlake trustee Joni Hamilton.
Upon discovering she was an alumna of Westlake school, I was immediately curious about...
I am mixed race, or, at least, I am trying to be. It is not easy when everyone around me expects me to be black.
I walk around school with a red, black and green Africa necklace hanging down to my belly...
The atmosphere in the Sept. 27 varsity girls’ volleyball game was different than most, in part because of the screaming Notre Dame fans crammed into the Notre Dame gym to watch their team play.
"Both...
