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Friday, April 19, 2024
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SUSHMITA GELDA


Kushal Bhardwaj, left, and KRS-One, right, met at UB’s 2010 Fall Fest.
KRS-One’s group, Boogie Down Productions, played a pivotal role in the
rise of socially conscious hip-hop in the 1990s. 
Courtesy of Kushal Bhardwaj
FEATURES

The message in the music

Tavaine Whyte remembers the sound of bullets whizzing past his window late at night. Whyte, a freshman African American studies major, grew up next to the housing projects in Brooklyn.


Spectrum File Photo
OPINION

"Half alive, half dead"

Spectrum File Photo For me, fall has always been a paradoxical time of the year. It?s a time of transition ? a time to embrace the coexistence and interdependence of life and death and smooth the dichotomy that normally separates them. I love the way the trees? bare branches scratch the sky and there?s nothing more satisfying than the crunch of a maple leaf?s skeleton under my shoes.


The West Side Bazaar offers refugees and immigrants
the opportunity to connect with their community and
learn entrepreneurial skills. Madhavi Pyakurel (pictured)
works at Nepali Clothing and Cosmetics with her
husband Bhagawat Pyakurel. 
Sushmita Gelda, The Spectrum
FEATURES

From Bhutan to Buffalo

Bhagawat Pyakurel, Bhutanese-born Nepali refugee, shares one car and one phone with his wife. He regularly pulls nearly 13-hour days between working, classes and driving himself and his wife to and from work. The 30-year-old sophomore math major owns Nepali Clothing and Cosmetics ? not only a small business, but a connection to his native country and means to survive in America.


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