By: Rikita Spencer November 12, 2020 4:36pm Wow this is the final FULL journal. Dr. Sandridge said that we still have to turn a journal in next week but just half. So very interesting. Anyway today’s class opened up with us saying our hellos. Dr. Sandridge asked Lauren about the…

By:Rikita Spencer November 5th, 2020 5:08pm We started off today’s class discussing the election fiasco. At this point, it’s pretty evident that Joe Biden will be the President-elect, but we all know Trump, his administration, and his supporters aren’t going to accept anything other than this feeble, idiotic man being…

By: Rikita Spencer October 29th, 2020 7:18pm We started off today’s class discussing the current weather and the looming hurricane. I am in metropolitan Atlanta and am not expecting anything to hit too hard. Then Dr. S introduced our special guess, Ms. Malliron. Her entire talk with us made me…

By: Rikita Spencer October 22, 2020 6:17pm In groups today, we talked about Philanthropy in the world and within ourselves. I was grouped with Mashayla, Lauren, and Nyara. Our emphasis was on peacemaking and moderation. We used the “master harmonizer” example from Binti and Lysistrata, to readings we have read…

By: Rikita Spencer October 15, 2020 3:12pm Before this week, I had heard of Ida B. Wells. I just knew she was an African-American female journalist who was also one of the founders of the NAACP. As everyone knows, the NAACP is an organization that stands for the National Association…

By: Rikita Spencer October 8, 2020 5:12pm After we took the weekly quiz, we went deeper into the meaning of Ned Week’s (The Normal Heart) name and the contradiction it displayed. His first name was Alexander, mimicking Alexander the Great, whilst ironically his last name is Weeks, synonymous to the…

By: Rikita Spencer October 1, 2020 2:37pm We opened up today’s class with Dr. Sandridge talking about Halloween costumes. I have never really been an adamant halloween celebrater. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a Christian household. My grandmother used to tell us it was a demonic holiday where…

By: Rikita Spencer September 24, 2020 5:23pm At the end of class today, Dr. S put us in breakout groups and we discussed dehumanization amongst different topics. My group members were Nyeema, and Omoneka. We chose the topics of Education and economy. Since we are all black, the first thing…

By: Rikita Spencer September 17, 2020 6:43pm The exercise we did today in class was similar to the Binti Master Harmonizer academy exercise we did last week. It was actually the same thing, just different things applied and new people your working with. We were group three so we chose…