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Brock Satter speaking at the Massachusetts State House

Mass Action Against Police Brutality hold press conference, speakers demand reopening of police brutality cases

Tanisha Bhat April 23, 2021
Activists gathered Wednesday for a press conference about the Derek Chauvin verdict.
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EDITORIAL: Dennis White’s domestic abuse allegations are yet another example of the policing system’s failures

Editors February 5, 2021
Police are not equipped to handle all of the issues they face and it is up to their city to hold them to a higher standard.
Boston University’s School of Law hosted the second installment of its “Race, Law and Inequality” speaker series on Thursday entitled “Detecting Police ad Prosecutorial Discrimination: Some Theoretical and Methodological Thoughts.” ALI AUDET/ DFP FILE

BU School of Law reflects on structural racism within US law

Rachel Do December 9, 2020

In an ideal world, laws are meant to uphold justice. However, as evidenced by a history spanning slavery and Jim Crow laws, the United States has shown that legislation can reinforce racial inequality. To...

“Trial 4,” a Netflix docuseries released on Wednesday, follows the four trials of Dorchester native Sean Ellis in a famous Boston murder case from 1993. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘Trial 4’ brings attention to famous Boston murder case

Connor Allen November 13, 2020
Netflix’s newest docuseries recounts the 1993 murder of Boston police Detective John Mulligan and the trials of Dorchester’s Sean Ellis.
EDITORIAL: Racial data collection during police stops may be helpful, but we need to do more

EDITORIAL: Racial data collection during police stops may be helpful, but we need to do more

Editors September 25, 2020
The racial biases that were in the system then are still there now. And collecting data on traffic stops might not be of too much assistance — more action will need to be taken.
Protesters hold up a Puerto Rican flag on Oct. 21 at a rally against Puerto Rican debt holder the Baupost Group. PHOTO BY ISABELLLA ARTEAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston-based organizations continue to support Puerto Rico’s slow recovery

Camila Beiner November 17, 2017

With 50-60 percent of Puerto Rican residents still without power, one Boston-based group is working to bring water filtration systems to the island that was ravaged by tropical storms earlier this...

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