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When I first moved to Cleveland, Miss., my sorority sister brought me to Mosquito Burrito, the restaurant she works at. I met her enthusiastic coworker, Michael Franks, who treated me with hospitality.
A...
Hannah Alley, Delta Arts Journal Editor
• May 4, 2020
“I mean no offense, but I need a man to help me. I don't want you to hurt your chance of having kids one day.”
What he’d said sent me reeling. I never thought such a sweet gentleman could actually...
Germs are taking over the world. Quite literally, the Coronavirus pandemic is shutting down multiple businesses in America in one clean sweep.
There’s no longer any need for recreation or luxuries...
I guess it was early summer because the neighborhood douchebags were out in full force, and my ill-fitting jeans had rubbed blisters all over my chubby thighs. Despite being probably thirteen or fourteen...
Imagine your brain scattered constantly with thoughts that are difficult to understand. Imagine a world where people look at you like you are a sore thumb in their reality when you reveal that you are...
DSU's beloved Spanish professor, Sylma Samuel Ferreira is from the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island in the Caribbean. Not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, another country in the Caribbean,...
Like you, people with autism are human. We have thoughts, emotions, and intentions of our own. We do not need to be told what to do or how to feel.
It is frustrating whenever I see yet another...
After the death of Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr wrote a letter explaining his final stance on integration.
“I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house,” King states in the...
Imagine this setting: The classroom is quiet as the professor approaches the whiteboard, writing a few bullet points in barely legible penmanship.
A student waits in the background for a clear view,...
Picture this: it is your graduation. You have been working for the last four years to walk on stage and receive your diploma.
It is finally over. Friends and family gather together to celebrate the...
Left with only questions and memories, the Delta State student body reels from the loss of three of their own. Senior Drew Rexrode, sophomore Rhianna Billings and junior Dylan Dempsey tragically lost their...