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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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babam musician plays a tuba at an aclu march

Boston remains soundtracked by protest

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 8, 2021
The Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians draw inspiration from New Orleans street bands.
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Carolyn Malachi, shown in a 2012 concert, is set to perform at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Feb. 27. COURTESY OF PENN STATE VIA FLICKR

Grammy-nominated Carolyn Malachi talks on her multi-focused career

Kaitlyn Riggio February 20, 2020
Carolyn Malachi, a 2010 Grammy nominee, tells of the ways she combines her music career with other passions. She will be performing at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum next week.
Colman Domingo, Nate Parker and Chike Okonkwo star in “The Birth of a Nation,” a film documenting Nat Turner and his slave rebellion. PHOTO COURTESY FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES

REVIEW: “The Birth of a Nation” is a new take on a pivotal historical event

Allegra Peelor October 7, 2016

When D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” opened in Boston in 1915, it was greeted by extensive rioting. The film, adapted from Thomas Dixon Jr.’s novel “The Clansmen: An Historical [sic]...

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