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A Target store in Fenway. Groups of activists and faith leaders committed to a 40-day boycott against the chain. JERRY SHI/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

A Lenten fast for justice: Target faces 40-day boycott over DEI rollbacks

Samantha Genzer March 7, 2025
A 40-day consumer boycott on Target began Wednesday, led by activists and faith leaders in response to the company’s recent shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Religion has no place in abortion rights | The Perfectly Imperfect Human Condition

Lillian Chapman December 8, 2023
Having a uterus is a fatal flaw. Most girls can say this from a devastatingly young age. I know I did. I know my sister did. I know my mom did. There are several reasons as to why having a uterus may lead to one’s downfall — all of which I’d need multiple hands to count on. But not being granted control over your own reproductive organ is dehumanizing and degrading. For as long as those in Congress use religious rhetoric to drive the law of the land, it will remain this way forever. 
Lucas Zhang / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: In defense of the Deep South

Caroline McCord February 27, 2022
When people on the left give up on the South or decry it is an embarrassment, it is not the rich white conservatives who suffer. It’s everyone else. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: Outcry surrounding the imminent Supreme Court justice is unjust

Caroline McCord February 6, 2022

It seems that even the United States Supreme Court is not immune to the so-called  “Great Resignation” currently sweeping through America. Last week, Justice Stephen Breyer announced his plans to...

Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Divine Politik: The truth behind the current labor movement

Caroline McCord October 28, 2021
The real truth behind the labor shortage and unofficial general strike happening in America is a story of hope, grit and the intrinsic belief that workers deserve rights and dignity.
Midnight Mass on Netflix

REVIEW: ‘Midnight Mass’ combines horror with biblical themes

Kendall Richards September 29, 2021
Creator Mike Flanagan returns to Netflix with his passion project.
old north church in boston

Boston churches partially reopen for second Easter in the shadow of COVID-19

Sam Trottenberg April 4, 2021
Boston's Old North Church opened for a limited in-person service, while others stayed online.
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...

Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Santa Claus exists, just not in the way you’d think

Lincoln Son Currie December 9, 2020
The Christmas season is perhaps the one time of the year we act a little nicer to each other. Using collective action to keep Santa Claus alive is the least we can do.
Lincoln Son Currie

Minority Report: The best way to spread Christmas cheer

Lincoln Son Currie November 16, 2020
Christmas music offers us the escape we need right now.
Jun Li/DFP STAFF

Canceled: True progressives cannot be friends with conservatives

Bini Ollivier-Yamin November 3, 2020
If we are able to exorcise Trump from office, your conservative friends will still be conservative, and that’s still gross. Stop being friends with gross people, or at the very least, stop bragging about your email exchanges with them on Twitter.
Religious choral group The Seraphim Singers perform a female-composed concert at the First Church in Cambridge Sunday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Seraphim Singers perform female-composed concert for female empowerment

David Simon March 5, 2020
The Seraphim Singers, a religious choral group grounded in modern-day social issues, performed at the First Church in Cambridge on Sunday with a concert entitled “Nevertheless, She Persisted,” inspired by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s testimony during Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General nomination hearings.
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