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The Leaf
The student voice of Sycamore High School in Cincinnati, Ohio

The Leaf
The student voice of Sycamore High School in Cincinnati, Ohio

The Leaf
Morrisons work is known for its focus on the African American experience- specifically for women. Combined with her lyrical and powerful prose, Morrison weaves compelling tales centered around family, identity, and society. Throughout her career, Morrison has collected many accolades.

Toni Morrison

Hannah Lee, Opinion Chief
February 8, 2018
POWER OF THE PEN. Audre Lorde, left, is pictured with fellow writers Meridel Lesueur and Adrienne Rich at a 1980 writing workshop in Austin, Texas. Lorde began writing poetry when she was 12 or 13 years old. Lorde attended Hunter College and Columbia University, after which she worked as a librarian for several years before publishing “First Cities.” She had two children with a man whom she married and later divorced. Lorde described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior poet.”

Audre Lorde

Anisa Khatana, Staff Writer
February 7, 2018
Over the course of his life Achebe won multiple writing awards such as the Man Booker International Prize (2007) and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2010).

Chinua Achebe

Sydney Evans, Leaflet Editor-in-Chief
February 6, 2018
HISTORY MAKER. Gibson’s achievements went on to inspire many other black athletes as well as women in the sport. She was later inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. She also went on to write an autobiography, titled “I Always Wanted to Be Someone.”

Althea Gibson

Harsitha Kalaiarasan, Staff Writer
February 5, 2018
LEGACY. Morgan Freeman accepts his Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild. He received the award on Jan. 21, 2018 as an 80 year old. Freeman has worked in theatre, TV, and Hollywood

Morgan Freeman

Jenna Bao, Executive Editor
February 2, 2018
RACE, CLASS, GENDER. hooks’ writing tends to be from a postmodern female perspective, through which she addresses race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, and mass media. As a writer, hooks chose the pseudonym “bell hooks” in tribute to her great-grandmother Bell Hooks, who was known for her opinions, and kept it in the lowercase to keep the focus on her work rather than her name. “It is the substance of my books, not who is writing them, that is important,” hooks said.

Bell Hooks (bell hooks)

Harsimran Makkad, Executive Web Editor-in-Chief
February 1, 2018
Heroin treatments

Heroin treatments

Adhiti Chundur, Print Editor-in-Chief
April 6, 2017

Cincinnati Exchange Project

Adhiti Chundur, Print Editor-in-Chief
April 3, 2017
To all the little girls watching...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance & opportunity in the world. -Hillary

Hillary Clinton

Caroline Veraldo, Sports Chief
March 31, 2017
Sonia Gandhi is known as one of the most influential people in the world. She took India’s politics into her own hands to achieve a better life for those individuals. Even though she was against joining politics due to her husband’s death, she saw the country’s politics dwindling, and decided to help her country.

Sonia Gandhi

Eshika Kohli, Business Manager
March 30, 2017
The UCLA Physics and Astronomy department has dedicated an annual lecture series, the Nina Byers Lectureship, to Byers. Every year, leading physicists visit UCLA and give lectures to faculty and students about general topics relating to physics. “This program is aimed to be a prestigious honor for the Lecturers as well as a mechanism for bringing the excitement of frontier results from external scientists to UCLA, thus raising the level of discourse in the Department,” said James Rosenzweig, department chair, in a statement.

Nina Byers

Harsimran Makkad, Web Editor-in-Chief
March 29, 2017
United States Senator from MA is speaking during the Democratic National Convention. She is one of the strong Democratic voices in the Senate. Warren was a professor for about 30 years focusing on consumer law and bankruptcy.

Elizabeth Warren

Lauren Kurtzer, Creative Projects Director
March 28, 2017
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