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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Honoring a historical holiday: My experience spending Patriots’ Day in Lexington

Alicia Hamm April 19, 2023
Although the marathon seemed to be the star event, I decided to spend the day taking a trip down history lane in Lexington.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Burning Out: The unconscious learning and unlearning of a fear of authority

Yvonne Tang April 26, 2021
The present teaches me to fear authority, but the past teaches me to do what I think is right.
Melnea Cass speaking at a memorial of the boston massacre

Boston’s Revolutionary Spaces honors activists’ legacies on 251st anniversary of Boston Massacre

Rachel Do March 10, 2021
Boston's Revolutionary Spaces held a virtual panel Friday with local civil rights activists to mark the 251st anniversary of the Boston Massacre and commemorate activists across generations.
Boston Police Department officers at a protest

Social justice protests echo through Boston’s history

Daniel Kool February 18, 2021
In its almost 400-year history, Boston has never been a stranger to unrest. Protests began in late May, following the death of George Floyd, and continued until the winter.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: The Gadsden flag, and our campus

Bini Ollivier-Yamin October 28, 2020
The Gadsden flag is racist. It is disgusting to see our administration — not just some random individual living on campus — display the flag so flagrantly. 
A Stop the GOP Tax Bill rally attendee holds up fake bags of money as she pretends to represent the 0.1 percent. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston residents rally against GOP tax bill

Shaun Robinson December 10, 2017

  Hundreds of Massachusetts residents gathered on the Boston Common Sunday to voice their opposition to the impending GOP tax bill. The “Stop the GOP Tax Bill” rally, organized by a...

Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson holds an open roundtable with journalists from college newspapers and talked about gentrification as well as education. PHOTO BY KANKANIT WIRIYASAJJA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Tito Jackson hosts media roundtable with college newspapers

Shannon Larson February 3, 2017

Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson engaged in a discussion with a group of student newspaper representatives at City Hall about how President Donald Trump’s executive orders will affect Boston. Jackson...

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