Goke Akinniranye is a Sophomore at SMU. He is an RHA Representative, Historian at the Association of Black Students, Secretary at Black Men Emerging and Membership Director of the SMU Democrats. He can be reached at gakinniran@mail.smu.edu Jokester I want to say this right to your face: Dude why can’t you say something real First [...]

She was sitting in an airplane- but it wasn’t like she was going anywhere. In fact, now that she thought about it, she wasn’t even sure where this plane was going to take her if it ever left the gate. She had gotten on and off and on and off too many of these fligihty [...]

Stop and go traffic. You stop—you go—you stop—the woman behind you in her ’84 mustang honks and rolls down the window. Smoke springs through the ever widening crack and the butt of a cigarette leaps out onto the pavement. Even the nicotine seems happy to escape her foul language oozing from foul lips, stained with [...]

I had seen Maggie do this before. Usually I beat her to the cash register and didn’t have to wait while she counted out all the change in her purse. It wasn’t fair! Mom gave her a twenty and me a five every week, and Maggie still didn’t have enough. So out comes the change [...]