Rowing’s Olivia Goldenberg’s personal story on her experiences as an athlete with an easting disorder.
By Olivia Goldenberg
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The “My Story Matters” Collection
For Day 1 of the 2020 NCAA Diversity and Inclusion Social Media Campaign, The Red & Black partnered with four Northeastern student-athletes to help tell the stories of their identities, perspectives, and experiences. Each story is a deeply personal account written by the athlete themselves. The four pieces of the “My Story Matters” collection are…
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The Roots of Change
Inequality and injustice are everywhere and while the world isn’t the utopia her younger self hoped for, NUBAC co-founder Khailah Griffin challenges everyone to help create a better world for you, your community, and the next generation.
By Khailah Griffin
In It For the Long Run
“Campeon de Corazon”: Finding our Team in Argentina
by Lauren Feeney Ever seen a group of girls and thought they looked basic? Ever seen 20 girls walk out of an Argentinian market wearing patterned scarves around their necks and ponytails? Well, when they are 12 pesos, it’s a VSCO girl’s dream.
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12:37:06
by Mia Thomas There are moments when it feels like everything is closing in. The ones when all the pain, fear, and failure fight so hard to creep under your skin. There I was, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, catching glimpses of land peeping over the 5-foot swells every chance I got. The…
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Out of the Darkness
by Noah Abrams My family members filed into the house, one after another, greeting each other with hugs and smiles. The house was loud, filled with laughter and conversation between cousins catching up, grandparents checking in and siblings making fun of each other. My family gathered around the…
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Second Last Chance
by Eve Goulet I remember when I was four years old, I could not believe I was being forced by my own mother to run around a muddy field with a bunch of grimy children I did not know. I thank God my mother was cruel enough to physically toss me out of the car while I was hysterically crying…
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My Purpose
by Brittany Bugalski If I could give freshman year Brittany one piece of advice, it would be to stop and appreciate more – embrace the people, the highlights, the failures and the day-to-day moments that you will never get back because this is what will shape you into the person you are now. I was…
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Coming Full Circle
by Shelly Morris I am an NCAA Division I head coach who is lucky enough to coach at my alma mater. It is an opportunity that is only afforded to a few. A true full circle of life, that my naïve 18-year-old self would have never seen coming. I grew up in western Massachusetts, playing street hockey with my brother, who to this day…
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