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The Official Newsletter of The University of Maryland's Black Student Newspaper
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Feb.26, 2025 | Volume 1 | Issue 5
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Welcome to this week's edition of The AfterShock! This week, we have a story highlighting the Driskell Center's spring exhibition, "America Will Be!", which examines the U.S. flag as a symbol of pride and protest, a feature story on theater student Qu'ran Mann and how he ended up at UMD and finally a Maryland Men's Basketball game update against the Washington Huskies on Sunday.
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-Nina Wilson, 2025-2026 Editor-in-Chief
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The University of Maryland’s Driskell Center unveiled its spring semester exhibition, “America Will Be!” which examines the U.S. flag’s capacity to serve as both a symbol of pride and protest, opening the campus to political discourse.
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The exhibition, on view until May 8, is timed to coincide with America’s 250th anniversary as a nation. Over 20 objects, artworks and documents centered around the theme of the U.S. Flag are on display, according to a press release from the Driskell Center. Langston Hughes’ poem “Let America Be America Again” inspired the title.
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Hughes’ poem contrasts the realities of American life and the American Dream. He critiques America for having ideals that it doesn’t uphold, like freedom and equality for all people. The pieces in the exhibit reflect this narrative, contributing to the broader ways communities and the artists themselves deal with loyalty to the country, community and themselves, the press release said.
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🔗: Read more here
✍️: Ashna Balroop
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📸: Courtesy of Taneen Momeni
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Nineteen-year-old Qu’ran Mann sat in the office of a U.S. Marine recruiter 11 years ago, enthralled by his surroundings. He wasn’t supposed to be there. He had an arranged meeting with an Air Force recruiter who stood him up; the man whose office he sat in invited him in as a courtesy while he waited.
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He stared around the room at photos of Marines, a massive mural of the Marines’ logo, a golden eagle perched on a globe that is punctured horizontally by an anchor.
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“Who are these people?” Mann wondered.
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“Finally, he asked. He was like, ‘Hey. Know anything about the Marine Corps?'” Mann said. “The rest is history.”
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🔗: Read more here
✍️: Max Schaeffer
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📸: Courtesy of Qu'ran Mann
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The Maryland Terrapins crunched out a nailbiter against the Washington Huskies, 64-60, Saturday afternoon at the Xfinity Center at the University of Maryland.
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The Terps (11-16) caught fire, knocking down 10 threes in a bounce-back win at home following two road losses. Washington (13-14) dropped its fourth of the last five games and will look to bounce back on the road against Rutgers on Tuesday.
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The Terps went on to lose 61- in an away game against Nebraska Wednesday. Maryland Men's Basketball will play a home game against Rutgers Mar. 1 at 12 p.m.
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🔗: Read the full game highlight here
✍️: Christian Jackson
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📸: Courtesy of Kevin Snyder/Maryland Terrapins
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That's all for this week. See you next Thursday!
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