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Young Atlanta Press

Fall 2020

The Legacy of Chadwick Boseman

Written by Ashley Austin As a black child growing up in a world focused on white Western beauty, seeing someone of my complexion or darker in media was an event that was few and far between. To get even the slightest bit of representation, I would have to spend my time…

Election Night

by Kyle Tay For twenty days, the campaign ads played nonstop on my television. Ads flashed across my screen, persuading me to either support or disapprove their cause. The news anchors have been making predictions, theorizing about the candidates’ strategies and shortcomings: an endless flood of speculation and guesswork. Recaps of the town…

By: Noelia Nava

It’s no secret that after a couple of years, old fashion trends tend to come back in style. We have seen this phenomenon happen throughout history. For example: chokers have been recorded to be first worn back in 2500 BC by the Sumerians, later coming back to style around the 1800s and again in the…

The Good, the Bad, the Internet

By Chelsea Martin Whether you prefer scrolling through your TikTok feed, liking your friends’ pictures on Instagram, or keeping up with the world on Twitter, you probably have some experience with social media. Thanks to technological strides in smartphones and the ever-expanding Internet, social media has become a cultural phenomenon. People readily recognize the names…

Netflix’s “Elite” Catalogs an Inclusive Kaleidoscope

By the time I turned eight, I had boyfriends and girlfriends. Everything went well until I used the wrong pronoun in a love letter to Jennifer, because I was cheating on her with Brandon next door. Growing up Pansexual and Latino is like being a roller-skating clumsy mosquito, who also listens to Juan-Gabriel. As I…