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  Currently Informed embraces Black History Month By: Aryan Mukherjee February is Black History Month. Great , you say, feigning a smile and then going back to texting your friends racist jokes in your group chat. Now imagine what you’ve done in a more flushed out sense. Millions of African Americans were ransacked, beat, lynched, raped, and had their wills extracted out and burnt to a crisp under excruciating amounts of pain and sacrifice, their struggles so real and so incredibly dark that Black History Month was created to honor their suffering in our history. And you have just slandered that all because times have changed and you refuse to look back. You see, this is not just a special month where you would greet your African American friends with a little more cordiality than would typically be beckoned. Rather, it is a testament to something that many could never even imagine living through- something to be remembered. To briefly sum up, Black History month originated as ...

  Currently Informed informedcurrently@gmail.com Aryan Mukherjee OUR STANCE ON MEDIA LITERACY At Currently Informed, we believe that everyone should have an equitable opportunity to traverse the Internet and have access to digital media in a world where it is becoming ever more prevalent. The digital divide, or gap between those who have readily available and reliable access to the Internet and those who don’t is something that has risen by 11% in the past decade and a half, and surges from a few main factors. For one, there is geography. Internet Service Providers simply do not have enough money and resources allocated to them by the government to extend their transmission network lines to every corner of the planet. To compensate, they just implement services in the most packed and urban places available to ultimately make as money as they can. Additionally, there is income. In most areas of the United States, schools and libraries are lucky enough to have the funding available t...