ECC's Literary Magazine is hosting it's annual fiction and creative non-fiction writing contest. Formatting: All entries must be by current ECC students. Please limit the entries to 20 pages each entry, with a maximum of three entries per person. Please use 12 point font, Times New Roman, and single spacing. Submit the entry or entries … Continue reading Submit to ECC’s Literary Magazine and Get Published!
Gwendolen Minks, Staff Writer Food/Tea As a big fan tea and different food choices, I was extremely excited to go to London and experience all that it had to offer in culinary. Granted, I know it’s very much a stereotype that the British only drink tea, but I would be lying if I didn't say … Continue reading Spilling the Tea on London
Sara Ireland, Staff Writer On March 7, the date the march from Selma to Montgomery began in 1965, the ECC Film and Lecture Series held a screening of the short documentary film “Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice”. The keynote speaker for this event, Linda Lockhart, paired with the screening in ways that I … Continue reading “Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice”: Guest Speaker, Film at ECC
Lucy Roth, Staff Writer In my short life, I’ve been touched by a lot of things. I’ve frolicked in the same streets Sylvia Plath would have, I’ve walked through the house Anne Frank and her family kept captive, and I’ve lost myself in the art of Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet and others. You think, “Wow. … Continue reading Reflecting on Montgomery
Juanita Ziegler, Guest Contributor The best way for me to describe my trip is with the word “powerful.” We visited three different exhibits which each had its own story to tell. The Rosa Parks Museum was not your average museum experience. As I waited for our entry into the main museum, I read a children’s … Continue reading Witnessing History in Montgomery, Alabama
Malaina Mastin, Guest Contributor The chains of the body can seem unbreakable but the chains of the mind can truly strap an individual. As a society, we go on with our everyday lives that are conformed by everyday minds. We don’t tend to think about what was the past in depth and how it has … Continue reading Societal Supremacy
Joshua German, Staff Writer The trip down to Montgomery was amazing to see happen. The amount of student involvement and participation was really inspiring to see, and it made me feel like all of the work was worth it. I felt like every single person there really wanted to go, and they treated the subject … Continue reading Journey to Montgomery
Photo by Juanita Ziegler Hayley Vawter, Editor While in Montgomery, I experienced a whirlwind of emotions and learned of the horrifying racial injustices black Americans have, and continue to, face in America. I read letters and listened to stories of blacks of the past and in the present who have experience racial inequality or have … Continue reading Eddie’s Legacy
Brittany Watson, Guest Contributor Hundreds, Thousands, Of people hanging, Hanging to be remembered, Not because of something they have been Spuriously accused of some foul mistruth, Not so the people who thought they were better than those Of another color can point, laugh, take obscene photos, throw things at them, Even burn or shoot them, … Continue reading Remember
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