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The student news site of Linganore High School

The Lance

The student news site of Linganore High School

The Lance

Promise Green, winner of What Social Justice Is To Me? FCTA making her mark in the FCPS community.

Social Justice 101: Green hopes for better future through winning poem

by Maya Apau, Editor-in-Chief May 14, 2021

“As we rise from the trenches. As we build our own bridges. As we strive with unimaginable ambition. There will be no more social injustice for me,” said poet Promise Green. Social Injustice...

Black Christmas Movies often display acts of colorism. Featuring a lighter complexed cast over more deeply melanated actors and actresses. This is typical in females over males. Where the females would be casted lighter, because they are seem as more attractive.

Red, Green, Bright, and Merry: The colorism problem in Christmas movies

by Maya Apau, Editor in Chief December 23, 2020

All is merry & BRIGHT. Each year during the holiday season, networks and streaming services roll out the typical Christmas love stories and dramas with couples in red and green. . . white couples...

African American girls endure constant comments related to their hair--much of it comes from the speaker not understanding the black hair basics.

Use your head: Think before you ask questions about a black woman’s hairstyle

by Maya Apau, Editor May 12, 2020

***This is PART 2  of a series of stories about the black experience at a suburban Maryland high school. In Part 1, Lancer Media reported on the spark of activism created when the  AACC (African American...

Minority students at LHS explained that they deal with these negative experiences on a daily basis.

Still I Rise: African American Culture Club teaches lessons about racism to staff

by Maya Apau, Editor May 11, 2020

**This is Part I of a series of stories featuring the African American experience in a suburban Maryland high school. As African American students in a predominantly Caucasian school, there are multitude...

African American Culture Club members pose for a photo with guest speaker Grace Hewitson.

AACC hosts guest speaker, Grace Hewitson: Photo of the Day 11/15/17

by Devin Barge, Editor November 15, 2017

The African American Culture Club (@lhsAACC) hosted guest speaker Grace Hewitson who is a recent graduate of the Class of 2017. Hewitson recently participated in the Miss Maryland Teen USA pageant 2017....

The African American Culture Club poses for their yearbook photo.

Ani Boghossian-James increases profile of African Americans with new club

by Kelsey Ward, Reporter February 3, 2017

With less than three percent African American students on campus, it's easy to disappear in the crowd. An opposite problem is in a mostly white school, as a subgroup, African Americans can get unwanted...

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