What would you do for or because of love? Love is a very deep emotion and can be hard to navigate even for the well rounded person. If we consider what love is and what it really means, for example affection...

“Borderless” by Jennifer DeLeon is a young adult book that explores life in her Central American homeland of Guatemala. The book follows the day to day life of Maya, our main character.  Maya, a young...

Recently, I had the opportunity to watch DC’s newest movie, “Blue Beetle". The movie follows Jaime Reyes, a Mexican American college student, who discovers an ancient artifact called the Scarab that...

Dedicated followers of the shark movie genre, enthusiasts of the “Jaws” series and those who eagerly anticipate the annual Shark Week events will find their cinematic desires met with “Meg 2: The...

  Are you patiently waiting for Halloween this year? Have you ever visited the sights of New Orleans? If you said yes to all of them, then you’re going to love Disney’s newest movie "The...

  The journey to graduation has been an enduring one, yet the final piece of the puzzle remains before I can stride across the stage to claim my well-earned diploma.  My transfer to NEIU from...

Hello to everyone who is reading this piece,   As some of you might know, my name is Leslie Lozada, the Editor-In-Chief of the Independent. Since May 2023, I have been working behind the scenes...