Priya Ragu’s 2021 “damnshestamil” pays homage to her Tamil heritage

Released in 2021, her debut album “damnshestamil” is a warm combination of contemporary music and an ode to her heritage, incorporating audio clips of women speaking in Tamil overlayed with traditional South Indian beats.

UR graduate students hold protest for unionization

Graduate student organizers are ready to do “whatever it takes” to form a union. “We feel like there's an extreme need here to get it done as quickly as possible,” said organizer Katie Gregory, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. “Up to and including a strike, everything's on the table.”

Banning sweatshops won’t fix poverty, says visiting professor

“Welfare of the workers is the goal,” Powell said. “... We [must] have a means-end discussion about what policies deliver on that."