Sophia DePhillips

Hatred has continuously been gifted the environment to thrive, and my college, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is no exception. On October 13th, the school will be hosting former Vice President Mike Pence as the keynote speaker for the Chancellor’s Dare to Learn lecture. This decision has been labeled as apolitical, regardless of the glaringly political undertones. After all, he isn’t just any public figure; he was the Vice President of one of America’s most polarizing Commanders in...

Taped outside every classroom was a list of names printed on varying colors of pastel paper. As a third grader, I’d read them while waiting silently in the hallway, lined up and ready to learn after recess or coming back from math in a different classroom. Charlotte was my favorite name on the list of twenty-six. Each time, I’d stay stuck on it for a second longer than all the rest, always coming back to those perfectly aligned nine letters. I loved the way the name sounded in my head. Charlotte...

The Associated Press has officially filed a lawsuit over its exile from the Oval Office naming the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, the White House Press Secretary, and the White House Chief of Staff as defendants. At first glance, it seems almost eye roll-worthy. The president of the United States, arms crossed and digging his heels in his own anger over the organization refraining from calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. The AP argues that as “a global news agency that disseminat...

When scrolling through my news feed there is an unsettling sense of deja vu. Everything I read feels like a dusty box of information housed in the back of my mind—a tug of knowing pulls in my stomach. I’ve seen all of this before. But where? A moment passes and then the realization hits. It has all been in presentations teachers gave at the front of classrooms, flashcards obsessively studied in hopes of getting an A, and test questions left stared at as a pencil hovered above; stuck between circ...