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The Current
The student news site of Watkins Mill High School

The Current
The student news site of Watkins Mill High School

The Current

Mina Graham, Associate Editor

 Mina Graham is a Senior at Watkins Mill High School. She is part of NHS, ACES, the Social Awareness Group (SAG), and plays varsity tennis. She has plans to go to a four year university and study Psychology. Mina enjoys listening to music, watching shows, and relaxing when possible.

All content by Mina Graham
Young Black girls often face objectificationa and adultification biasly throughout their youth compared to other young girls of different races.

The adultification of Black girls

Mina Graham, Associate Editor
May 10, 2022
Setting boundaries can only help relationships, and cause healthy open conversations.

The importance of setting boundaries in relationships

Mina Graham, Associate Editor
April 20, 2022
Some of the best romance K-dramas.

K-dramas to watch this Valentines Day

Mina Graham
February 11, 2022
While COVID-19 cases rise in-person learning continues, getting tested frequently is a necessity.

Rapid test kits need to be distributed to students weekly

Mina Graham, Associate Editor
January 18, 2022
Though it is important, many people are hesitant to get vaccinated.

Vaccine disparities put people of color at tremendous risk

Mina Graham and Isabella Luna
December 21, 2021
While the N-slur can have an important role in literature, there is no place for it to be spoken in a classroom.

Using the N slur out loud in class is unacceptable and inappropriate

Mina Graham
November 9, 2021
Seniors painting the rock and preparing for their final year of high school.

Seniors offer advice to freshmen on how to make the most of high school

Julien Payen and Mina Graham
September 30, 2021
The 1979 novel by Octavia E. Butler.

Book review: Kindred

Mina Graham, Opinion Managing Editor
June 17, 2021
Vaccine Disparities around the World

Vaccine Disparities around the World

Mina Graham, Ayslinn Villalta, and Hawi Yohannes
June 14, 2021
Sarah Hegazi raising a rainbow flag with friends at a concert in Cairo.

Remembering Sarah Hegazi and her impact on LGBTQ+

Mina Graham, Opinion Managing Editor
June 8, 2021
Terms that were once deemed "harmless" have now become harmful.

The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes is unacceptable and needs to end

Mina Graham, Opinion Managing Editor
March 29, 2021
MCPS can expand their English curriculum with these diverse books.

Books to diversify the high school English curriculum

Grace Edwards and Mina Graham
February 22, 2021
What may seem harmless may actually be harmful when it means people become victims.

Racial fetishization isn’t a compliment, it’s weird

Mina Graham, Opinion Managing Editor
February 17, 2021
Things might not go back to how they were before the pandemic.

Pandemic paranoia might linger even after the virus is less of a threat

Mina Graham, Opinion Managing Editor
January 8, 2021
For those who are multi-racial, it's no uncommon to feel like you don't belong to a certain race.

Racial Impostor Syndrome affects multi-racial generation, leads to feelings of not belonging

Mina Graham, Opinion Managing Editor
November 23, 2020
"We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women." --Jackson Katz, from his TED Talk "Violence Against Women: It's a Men's Issue."

Believing the victim should be normalized, victim blaming is a logical fallacy

Ayslinn Villalta and Mina Graham
October 9, 2020
Math teacher Stephen Burrows (second from right) poses with his wife (far right), Erin Burrows, his daughter-in-law and son, Christine Hayward and Michael Burrows (left), his daughter Maddie Burrows (bottom right) and foreign exchange student Do Young Kim. The Burrows family has enjoyed hosting many foreign exchange students over the years.

Burrows teaches foreign exchange students about American culture, life

Mina Graham, Ayslinn Villalta, and Isabella Luna
March 3, 2020
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