I remember in the eighth grade when my first boyfriend Charlie Jones asked me to be his girlfriend. We were in his parents’ basement watching some dumb movie. We had held hands in science class and sat together at lunch, we baked brownies and smeared the batter on each others’ faces (as you can see […]
Planned Parenthood, a non-profit organization with over 650 locations nationwide, is regarded by the uninformed masses as merely a clinic that provides abortion services. The non-profit gets a bad reputation for this very reason, and at any given time and any given location, you can find a slew of anti-abortion protestors waving around posters with […]
Graduating high school senior Rooha Haghar was giving a speech at Emmett J. Conrad High School, as is customary for valedictorians to do during their graduation ceremonies when her mic was cut-off mid-sentence. The abrupt interruption occurred as she was speaking aloud the names of Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice. This event speaks volumes (oh, […]
In early May of 2019, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law a piece of anti-abortion legislation known as the “Heartbeat” bill. This bill will effectively ban abortions after six weeks–the earliest that a fetal heartbeat can be detected in the womb–except situations where the mother’s health is at risk. Unless overturned in the supreme […]
Georgia State University (GSU) is known for its affordable tuition rates but is set to raise its tuition fees for the 2019 fall semester. This decision came from the Georgia Board of Regents who voted on an increase of all state universities’ tuition fees by 2.5%. The board did not respond to IY’s requests for […]
