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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

The Student News Site of Harvard-Westlake School

The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

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Misrepresentation in Media

Students and faculty weigh in on diversity in media and contemplate how pressure for “progressive” writing may lead to inauthentic representation.
Jina Jeon
October 13, 2021

Fernanda Herrera ’23 flipped through the channels on her television, wondering why she did not look like any of the characters on screen. Could she ever be like the princesses and superheroes in her...

Torn Between Two Worlds

Torn Between Two Worlds

Biracial students reflect on their experiences feeling isolated, as they struggle to feel accepted by people of either of their racial backgrounds.
Mia Feizbakhsh
May 30, 2021

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...

Illustration by Samantha Ko

A Complex-ion Issue: Colorism

Jordan Murray
March 1, 2019

As Lauren Mc Gee ’20, the only African-American girl in her 6th-grade class, sat at her desk having a conversation with a friend, a classmate came up to her and called her the n-word out of nowhere....

Appreciate don't appropriate

Appreciate don’t appropriate

Casey Kim
February 2, 2019

Though Ariana Grande’s latest single “7 Rings” may have landed a place on Spotify’s Global Top 50 playlist, it also landed the artist in a pool of angry listeners that have accused her of culturally...

Examining intersections of identity

Examining intersections of identity

By Joanna Im
December 14, 2018

Minorities of all different types face discrimination and appropriation in American society. Thankfully, social media and public protests have recently been able to raise attention to current social issues,...

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Looking back at how the school has handled diversity issues this past decade

Katie Plotkin
March 29, 2017

On March 13, 2007, the administration suspended two sophomores who sent an email with a “diss tape” they had made that threatened violence and aimed homosexual slurs at other students. Ten years later,...

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