The Wano arc in One Piece, which lasted over four years with more than 200 episodes, has finally concluded. This lengthy project brought many people together, especially with the epic developments like Luffy’s Gear 5. Now, as the arc wraps up, fans are both emotional and eager to see what’s next for the Straw Hats on their new journey. The upcoming episode, One Piece Episode 1088, is highly anticipated, and fans can look forward to it without any breaks. Read More...
Christiane Calixte is a junior at the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn.
As a Black high school junior, I have to say: The backlash I’ve seen against the teaching of critical race theory is unbelievable.
In most schools, as has been well established, critical race theory — an approach to analyzing the intersection of race, history and the law, generally reserved for higher education — isn’t even being taught. And yet, since January 2021, according to Education Week, more than 30 states “have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching critical race theory or limit how teachers can discuss racism and sexism” in K-12 schools. Read More...
What is poetry? Why does poetry matter? Does it?
These questions are often posed during National Poetry Month. They are also boring. Year after year, poetry endures, whether it has definition or significance. So when I began curating a collection of poems to feature for National Poetry Month, the word that nagged at me was not “poetry” but “national.” How do you decide what to include in a nation’s poetry when the nation is fraught? Read More...
