Queer Dating in Atlanta
By Joshua Burrell, Staff Writer Getting gifts and candy for lovers is easy, but Walmart doesn’t sell relationships. Finding a relationship is difficult, but how do queer people fair with fostering relationships in heteronormative spaces and are queer romances harder to maintain in the Atlanta University Center (AUC)? “There’s this big idea of the perfect…
Black Love: SpelHouse Edition
The nature of this project by no means encompasses the fullness of all the relational experiences that exist in the AUC. The Maroon Tiger wanted to take the time to highlight just a few couples on campus to remind students that successful, black, college relationships still exist. Producer: Sydney Haywood (@Syd_Christina)
A Win for Spike Lee and the AUC
By Joshua Burrell, Staff Writer Morehouse College alumni Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee was awarded the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay of his film “BlacKkKlansmen” at the 91st Academy Awards on Feb. 24. His win made an uproar on Twitter that all Atlanta University Center schools should take pride in. Lee has directed films for over 30 years,…
Hear the Tigers Roar: New Talents Sets Tone for Lacrosse Team Debut
Cai Johnson, Contributing Writer The Morehouse College Lacrosse Club Team started off their season in brilliant fashion with a 19-10 win over Dalton State. With a new season comes new players, and those players announced their presence flashily by combining for 13 of the 19 goals in the game. More importantly, the sensational play from…
Champion Mentality
By Jarrett Cook, Staff Writer “We all we need, we all we got. Morehouse!” This is the chant that could be heard from the Maroon Tigers locker room after they won their last home game. The chant could not be a better way to describe the success the Maroon Tigers enjoyed this regular season….
A Founder’s Day Call To Action from the Editor-In-Chief
Dear Mother Morehouse, Two years ago, I started my first day at Morehouse College. It was a school I had never heard of until my mom visited it while she was in Atlanta, and she came back and told me, “You’re going to Morehouse.” From the moment I visited the school for myself, I immediately…
7 Unappreciated Rap Projects of 2018
Kennedy London, Staff Writer Around the end of every year, we as appreciators of music like to compile our favorite albums that came out. However, in the mainstream we tend to see the same few albums being circulated like they are the holy grail. On one hand, some of the albums do deserve the recognition,…
Michelle Obama’s Portrait Painter Chats With Spelman Museum Director
By Autumn Harris, Contributing Writer Amy Sherald doesn’t remember much from her early childhood, but during her conversation at the High Museum of Art with Dr. Andrea Barnwell-Brownlee, she easily recalled Bo Bartlett’s 1986 painting, “Object Performance,” as her first introduction to American Realism. As a sixth-grader, it also doubled as her first time seeing…
Sellers Comes Back
Jair Hilburn, Editor-In-Chief Founder’s Week is known across campus for being a time to celebrate the birth of Morehouse College, but even amid the celebration, there is still some conversation to be had. On February 15, there will be a presidential symposium on “The Morehouse Idea: Opportunities, Complexities, and Challenges for the Global Black Community…