Celebrating Bethlehem's Southside Culture
Lori Goldstein, a member of the graduating class of 1995, began her career in both editing and journalism. Some of her first jobs included editing technology and public policy journals for Cutter Consortium, a business-technology advisory firm, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. However, the monotony of this style of writing lead to Goldstein’s realization…
Chances are that, regardless of your generation, story time was an integral part of your childhood. If you are like me, tales of medieval princesses and heroes were a staple growing up; however, it’s not just for kids anymore. By contemporary standards, most of us may pigeonhole storytelling to children’s books and bedtime stories, but…
I’ll always have a vivid memory of the day after the 2016 presidential election. I was still a senior in high school in a small town in New Hampshire, and I remember the palpable sense of division that was apparent as soon as a walked through my school’s front doors. There were kids wearing Trump…
Reading a poem can be an individualistic experience. The imagined pitch of the narrator’s tone, the length of the pause at a carefully placed comma, the speed with which the lines flow from one into the next are all determined by our own voice as we consider the artful collection of lines on the page…
Every month, five to ten people gather at the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center to talk about books. More specifically, we meet to discuss LGBT memoirs, as one small part of the organization’s arts and culture initiatives. The Bradbury-Sullivan Center, as the only such LGBT-focused organization in the region, provides crucial support for LGBT members of…
Looking around Baker Hall, I couldn’t help but notice the diverse array of faces in the sea of people filling the auditorium to maximum capacity. A white elderly couple sits to my right, relieved to finally have a break after waiting in line for almost two hours. To my left, a Black woman proclaims she…
On Thursday, October 18, 2018, twenty Lehigh Valley residents came together to address the painful stigmas surrounding welfare in the U.S. This free public event was part of an ongoing discussion series hosted by Tackling T.I.N.A., an organization that aims to broaden the local community’s understanding of economic justice. The discussion series serves as a…
It’s remarkable when you can see so much of yourself in a person who initially seems so different from you. Jacqueline Woodson was born in Ohio and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina after her mom left her dad. She moved to Brooklyn with her family when she was seven to escape Jim Crow. She…
If my memory serves me correctly, I was in fourth grade the last time I wrote someone a letter and actually sent it in the mail (excluding the few following years that I still penned a letter to Santa). This experience isn’t unique to me; as a society, we’ve largely shifted to digitized forms of…
Tackling T.I.N.A. is not your average reading group. The group, which is run by Adam Heidebrink-Bruno, a grad student at Lehigh University, focuses on imagining alternatives to capitalism. The title of the group points toward their aim of “tackling” the belief that “there is no alternative” to our current economic system. Although this may seem…