Students of Color Archives

SOAR wins Ruby Bridges Student Leadership and Courage Award

By Josie Spiegelman, Editor in Chief ♦ Nov 7, 2019

The TUHSD was awarded the Ruby Bridges Student Leadership and Courage Award by Pacific Educational Group, a nationwide firm dedicated to starting meaningful conversations about race in schools.

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A new year of SOAR

By Tenaya Tremp, Opinion Editor ♦ Oct 17, 2019

Though only in its third year of existence, Tam’s branch of Students Organizing for Anti-Racism (SOAR) has already won a national level award.

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Breakthrough Day is worth doing well

Jun 24, 2019

The disorganized nature of the event inhibited its ability to start a constructive conversation, and may have actually dissuaded people from listening further.

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SOAR and Leadership hold 2019 Breakthrough Day

By Sam Glocker and Saranyu Nel ♦ Jun 8, 2019

The original Breakthrough Day took place on February 27, 1967. This year, students in SOAR and Leadership held a series of seminars and events aimed to cultivate school-wide discussion about racism.

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Editorial: Not Quite Breaking Through

By Editorial Staff ♦ Mar 13, 2019

In the summer of 2017, two former Tam students spray painted a racial epithet on the side of Wood Hall, directed at our principal J.C. Farr. While this hate crime was egregious and despicable, it provided...

Yes, Liberals Can Be and Are Racist

By Jessica Fuentes Vazquez and Jessica Fuentes Vazquez ♦ Jun 3, 2017

Submitted by a student not in The Tam News. Ignorance is bliss, and the best recipe for ignorance is the type that tells you that you’re not ignorant. To be aware of overt and macro aggressions...

My Experience at Tam as a Student of Color

By Jody Rome Thompson and Jody Rome Thompson ♦ Jun 3, 2017

This was submitted by a student not in The Tam News. One foot in front of the other I keep telling myself, don't trip and embarrass yourself. The big yellow bus I will call my second home for the next...

ASB Election Results

By Madeline Reilly & Calvin Rosevear ♦ May 4, 2017

The Associated Student Body (ASB) election results were announced on April 28, ending in the victory of President Robbie Samec, Vice President Megan Butt, also a news editor for The Tam News, and Treasurer...