Skip to Main Content
The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University

The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

The Daily Free Press

Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: We shouldn’t celebrate a Chick-fil-A food truck

Editors January 29, 2021

If you’re on campus this semester and have walked past Boston University’s College of Communication, you might have seen a big, red food truck. At the beginning of the year, Chick-fil-A began parking...

Action Hour is the Boston University Queer Activist Collective’s weekly commitment to anti-racism activism. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU’s Queer Activist Collective calls on community to fight for social justice

Julia Furnari October 28, 2020
The LGBTQ+ advocacy group holds a weekly "Action Hour," where members call representatives to demand justice for victims of police brutality and race-based violence.
Boston University’s Queer Activist Collective, UMOJA and Student Government hosted a virtual LGBTQ+ POC Ally Training event on Tuesday to address “whiteness” in queer spaces. CAMERON MORSBERGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Allyship training pushes BU community to address “whiteness” in queer spaces

Cameron Morsberger July 9, 2020
Often forgotten in historic LGBTQ+ moments are the Black and Brown voices within the community that spearheaded the fight. Modern activists and scholars say they are trying to rectify this erasure.
Demonstrators in front of a Roxbury police station, protesting police brutality. On Wednesday, Boston University held a Day of Collective Engagement to encourage faculty and students to have conversations about race. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty, students spend day engaging in multi-faceted conversations on race

Cameron Morsberger June 24, 2020
BU hosted a “Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles” Wednesday to encourage campus-wide conversation about racism. 
Femitwist: Anger isn’t conducive to allyship

Femitwist: Anger isn’t conducive to allyship

Michal Shvimer October 10, 2018

It’s 10 p.m. on a Saturday night. Why am I screaming at this cashier at Star Market? Flipping through People magazine while I wait in the checkout line, I come across a picture of three generations...

Load More Stories
Activate Search
allyship