A single misguided tweet, video, or post has the potential to be “canceled”, a term that describes the public shame of those who commit questionable actions or hold dissenting beliefs. Nowadays, people have been even more careful about expressing what they truly believe want to say on an issue in...

On February 26, 2017, Westford Academy student Medha Palnati stood on the steps of the Boston Common as she delivered the final words of her speech at the Emergency Rally to Stand for Democracy to rally for truth and transparency in government: "It is our duty to preserve what is true. [...] This...

In the spectrum of sexual and gender identities, there still remains many orientations that get less of a spotlight in both the LGBTQ community as well as the social world. Among these overlooked terms is asexuality, something that Westford Academy alumni Marina White of the class of 2016 and Mary [whose...