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From folk to hip-hop: protest music through the years

From folk to hip-hop: protest music through the years

Cathleen Weng

Increasingly political content in entertainment is quickly becoming an epochal, cultural trend. But despite its increasing frequency, it continues to be accompanied by staunch, resolute objection: people continue to dislike the invasive nature of today’s politics, and especially its invasion into entertainment and media. But perhaps those voices are forgetting that entertainment has always been political and nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the rich history of protest music in the United States of America.

THE PROSPECT | 6 hours ago

David Adjaye, architect behind University Art Museum redesign, wins top architecture prize

David Adjaye, the architect of the new Princeton University Art Museum.
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David Adjaye, architect behind University Art Museum redesign, wins top architecture prize

David Chmielewski

While there is not a Nobel Prize for Architecture, there are a number of coveted top prizes in the field. One of these prizes, the Royal Gold Medal, was recently awarded to Sir David Adjaye, whose firm Adjaye Associates is designing the new Princeton University Art Museum. In 2018, it was announced that Adjaye and his firm would be behind the redesign of the Princeton University Art Museum, with construction slated to be completed in late 2024.

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What Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ gets right — and wrong

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What Netflix’s ‘Indian Matchmaking’ gets right — and wrong

Aditi Desai

The tradition of arranged marriages, its toxic ideologies, and its regressive trends still exist in Indian society, putting pressure on women to compromise, instructing young adults to prioritize societal expectations, and preaching class divisions. These burdens are real and still unapologetically true, as depicted in “Indian Matchmaking.” However, they are certainly not representative of all of South Asian culture.

THE PROSPECT | 6 days ago

The complex world of Twitter bots

The complex world of Twitter bots

Molly Cutler

It starts to feel crowded, with hundreds of takes rattling around in my head and hundreds of very human personalities flooding my timeline.

THE PROSPECT | October 21

Our America: Reactions to the Pre-read

Paige Allen

We asked members of the Class of 2024 to react to Jill Lepore’s "This America: The Case for the Nation," this year’s Pre-read selection. Here are their reflections.

THE PROSPECT | October 18

Innovative yet grounded, Nathan Meltzer performs at Dreamstage

Nathan Meltzer and his violin.
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Innovative yet grounded, Nathan Meltzer performs at Dreamstage

Aster Zhang

As the music industry slowly moves toward re-opening, violinist Nathan Meltzer and pianist Jun Cho appeared at Dreamstage (an online concert-streaming venue) on Oct. 4, playing a program of Ludwig van Beethoven, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Johannes Brahms, and Maurice Ravel.

THE PROSPECT | October 13

The psychology of reopening: Why we’re not taking the pandemic as seriously as before

The psychology of reopening: Why we’re not taking the pandemic as seriously as before

Shira Moolten

Many of us have decided to behave as if the pandemic is over, or at least less dangerous than before. But why?

THE PROSPECT | September 13

Prospect Recipes: Granitas

Annabelle Duval

Beat the summer heat and take a break from internships, jobs, or binge-watching Netflix to treat yourself with a fruity granita!

THE PROSPECT | September 4

Prospect Recipes: Welsh Cookies

Paige Allen

Today, we’re making Welsh cookies. I grew up eating Welsh cookies with Mam, and my parents and I have become somewhat addicted to them during this quarantine summer.

THE PROSPECT | August 16

‘Decolonizing your bookshelf’: students, alumni, and local businesses turn to books — and buying practices — to combat racism

Patrice McKinney, co-owner of Source of Knowledge, and Nabate George, a Source of Knowledge employee, stand in the store framed by books, many of which are featured in Turn The Page’s Black Liberation Literature Collections. 
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‘Decolonizing your bookshelf’: students, alumni, and local businesses turn to books — and buying practices — to combat racism

Hannah Smalley

As the pandemic keeps many from attending in-person protests, many in the University community are incorporating reading into their activism.

THE PROSPECT | August 10

Anti-Racist Reading Review: Between the World and Me

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests,” he says. “The library was open, unending, free.” Graphic by Harsimran Makkad / Daily Princetonian

Anti-Racist Reading Review: Between the World and Me

Alex Gjaja

In the first installment of The Prospect's Anti-Racist Reading Reviews, Alex Gjaja reads Ta-Nehisi Coates’s profound work Between the World and Me in the context of 2020, reflecting on the visceral violence of racism and the lessons Coates's text offers to universities and university students.

THE PROSPECT | July 30

The two faces of Dayton police

Katie Heinzer

But in the face of peaceful Black protesters, officers took their Blackness as a signal of violence, disrespect, and “thuggishness.”

THE PROSPECT | June 30

Members of the Class of 2024 unveil virtual, interactive campus in Roblox

Sreesha Ghosh

Ever since Princeton’s temporary closure in March, each and every student has felt the gaping absence of their campus, but some of that still stands to be recovered. While remaining on campus was impossible, an alternative was unveiled on May 30 via the creation of a virtual campus on Roblox.

THE PROSPECT | June 23

Processing race: navigating social media activism as a NBPOC

Processing race: navigating social media activism as a NBPOC

Cameron Lee

Conceptualizing race and racism inherently creates a set of paradoxes. It asks us to recognize that racism impacts everyone, but that it impacts everyone differently; it asks us to disassociate from our own racial identity/ies to see the human in each other, but to also celebrate the individuality in our human experiences; it both unites and divides us, because the problem is divisive but the solution is unity.

THE PROSPECT | June 14

Students support local businesses with new platform Zage

PJ’s Pancake House, one of the businesses participating in Zage.
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Students support local businesses with new platform Zage

Jack Allen

After hearing about the struggles faced by a number of these restaurants after students left campus in mid-March, Dilbagi created Zage, an online platform that allows community members to send money to local businesses now to redeem as credits on their purchases in the future.

THE PROSPECT | June 14

Q&A with @lonelycovidtiger: Jeongmin ‘JM’ Cho ’21

As the anonymous @lonelycovidtiger, Jeongmin “JM” Cho ’21 spent the last two months documenting on-campus life amid the pandemic.
Photo by Jeongmin Cho ’21

Q&A with @lonelycovidtiger: Jeongmin ‘JM’ Cho ’21

Sam Kagan

Jeongmin “JM” Cho ’21, the student behind the Instagram account @lonelycovidtiger, opens up about documenting campus life amid COVID-19. “I hope we will be looking back and be able to appreciate the things that we may have otherwise taken for granted — simple things like being able to be with one another, hug your friends, and express appreciation.”

THE PROSPECT | May 15

Memes and mobilization

Auhjanae McGee

In light of being prematurely sent home due to the coronavirus, never have I seen such complex, crafty, and community-minded memes be published at this quick of a pace. In memes and advocacy, I see conduits for empathy, for community building, and ways to make people feel better, in variant but parallel methods.

THE PROSPECT | April 27

Zoom games in the time of quarantine

Zoom games in the time of quarantine

Annabelle Duval

Of course, nothing can substitute hanging out with friends in person, but we have to find ways to stay connected and make each other laugh.

THE PROSPECT | April 26

Tigers and TikTok

Jose Pablo Fernandez Garcia / The Daily Princetonian

Tigers and TikTok

José Pablo Fernández García

The world we live in is undoubtedly changing in various facets day by day, and how we socialize and connect with our communities is no exception. For at least some Princeton students, TikTok is taking on an increasingly prominent part of their social lives as our campus community is spread out across the world.

THE PROSPECT | April 12

The art of socializing

The art of socializing

Sreesha Ghosh

The quarantine has taught us many, many things. Like working from home isn’t as cool as it seems. Or that Animal Crossing is apparently still a thing. It has also taught us that we are people that need each other. And that while this situation is far from ideal, the fact that we still have access to one another is something to be grateful for.

THE PROSPECT | April 8

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