At 5:30 pm on Tuesday, November 26, community organizations Defend Harlem and New York Interfaith Commission gathered on 116th and Morningside to rally against Columbia’s land expansions.

On October 17, Staff Writer Lorelei Gorton attended Music on the Brain, a conversation at the National Jazz Museum of Harlem on the emotional impacts of music with a Columbia neuroscientist and a local musician.

On Monday, September 30, Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), Housing Equity Project (HEP), and local organization Defend Harlem held a protest in opposition to Columbia’s expansion into the Harlem community.

North Korean nuclear facilities, splashdown, the 55th Annual African-American Day parade in Harlem, and virtual Naloxone training!

Trader Joe’s and Target in the same building? Sign me up!

The jazz show you don’t want to miss. Editor’s Warning: Mentions of death.

There’s a big mysterious balloon, but it may not be as fun as it sounds.

The most recent installment of Senator Cordell Cleare’s Series of Panels and Discussions on Housing took place at Barnard College this past Tuesday, focusing on the intersectionality of housing and race through the history of segregation.

Last night, New York Times contributors Darcy Eveleigh and Rachel L. Swarns visited Barnard to discuss their recent book about what was left unseen and undiscovered of black history until the two decided to search through the NYT archives. Bwogger Miyoki Walker was there to catch the whole thing. Surprisingly enough, space, the deep sea, […]

Happening Around The World: Another plane has unfortunately crashed, marking the second commercial incident in the past week. Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 crashed an hour into the journey heading from Tehran to Yasuj. (BBC) Happening In The Nation: While the NBA All-Star game was happening (I don’t know anything about sports nor will I attempt to try […]

Parents? In your dorm room? Sounds like a recipe for disaster! A first-year Bwogger shares fun tidbits from Parents Weekend, in chronological order. My parents arrived at 1 pm on Thursday but didn’t tell me they were safely in New York until 5:00 pm—a function of being unable to navigate their iPhones. Here’s a direct quote […]

Breaking news if you’re into this kind of thing: New York’s 27th congressional district will likely find earmarks a lot harder to come by soon, as a House investigative committee has found that longtime congressman and lord of Harlem Charles Rangel “violated a range of ethics rules.” The eighteen-month-long investigation was investigating whether the former […]

A visitor to the Livin’n’Learnin’ Center noticed something odd about a new poster welcoming students to Wallach 5. The floor’s new poster is ostensibly intended to help residents get to know New York by introducing them to all tha Big Applez‘ ethnic enclaves. You know, like the Upper West Side. The poster highlights neighborhoods across […]

Does anyone actually know what anthropology is? What does Evo love more: nationalization of oil or speaking at Columbia?  Should GS deans be chosen in the same way as GS students–far too late? Did you know that, like, East 116th is TOTALLY less gentrified than, like, Columbia?  I think she actually saw a poor person! […]

Last night, Bwog enjoyed the literary and cuisinary culture of the Latino-Caribbean  with the volunteers and novice poets of Voices UnBroken. Bwog arrived to the Voices UnBroken Poetry Slam a little late last night, but there were still plenty of maduros to be eaten and plenty of amateur poets to be heard. The reading drew […]