The Black and White

Ten days of silence: Allison Hayes retreats to Thailand, practices meditation

By Holly Adams • October 10, 2019

It’s 4 a.m. in the remote forests of Southern Thailand. A bell rings and science teacher Allison Hayes wakes up for a session of early morning meditation. After, she heads to a sun-rise yoga session,...

Roundtable discussion about race

By Maddy Frank and Max London • June 5, 2019

Over the past two years, Whitman students have been involved in several serious incidents of racism. Last year, students attended a schoolwide assembly when multiple students experienced racism, and last...

‘This is outright erasure’: backlash ensues after Trump proposes to erase ‘transgender’ from existence

By Max London • November 14, 2018

Moving to Maryland from Brazil made a world of a difference for senior Ana Sampaio, who is genderqueer and uses the they/them pronoun. For 16 years, they lived in Brazil—a country where a federal judge...

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