John Brown University's Student Newspaper
At the hands of civilian market participants, GameStop Corp. stock reached an all-time high of $347.51 on Jan. 27 in an unprecedented stock-buying frenzy. The stock peaked briefly at $483 on Jan. 28 and has caused the House of Representatives Finance Committee and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to […]
Asian-American communities—having weathered increasing levels of racism and xenophobia during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic—face a resurgence of violence, especially toward elders. Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old man who immigrated to the United States from Thailand, died on Feb. 1 after being attacked and knocked to the ground in […]
On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s military seized control of the country in a coup against the democratically-elected government of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with President Win Myint and other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Myanmar’s military, also known as the Tatmadaw, […]
A colorful spectrum of lights flashes across the screen as students emerge from the shadows with intimate defiance. This is their moment to share their truth. “Part of the Kingdom,” a documentary directed by Makenna Cofer, a student at John Brown University, released on Dec. 17. The film takes a […]
In the weeks leading up to the election, allegedly ground-breaking information about Hunter Biden was released by the New York Post, but it was not given priority on social media platforms. Twitter and Facebook are under fire for censoring stories and posts related to the story and the allegations. Republican […]
In a year that has been anything but typical, the 2020 presidential election shattered records of voter turnout and has verged on the edge of chaos. On Nov. 7 at 11:25 a.m. EST, The Associated Press (AP) called the presidential election after receiving the necessary votes from Pennsylvania. Former Vice […]
Only an hour and a half drive northwest of Siloam Springs, there once existed a town of comparable population. Today, Picher, Oklahoma is gone. So gone, in fact, that it is beyond a ghost town. Most of its main street buildings have been torn down, and all that remains are […]
In the midst of a divisive election, a global pandemic and the loss of iconic Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new female figure emerged on the Supreme Court: Conservative Amy Coney Barrett. Barrett, formerly a judge for the Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals, was sworn into office […]
One of the many groundbreaking social movements of 2020 surfaced in Nigeria last month and has taken the world by storm. The movement #endSARS began trending on Twitter in October as millions gathered in Nigeria to protest the brutal actions of the Nigerian federal police group called the Special Anti-Robbery […]
College students, some voting in a presidential election for the first time, entered an extended waiting period to see who the next president of the United States will be. Voters submitted almost 64 million mail-in ballots for the 2020 election, according to The New York Times, and the time to […]