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Emma Clement | Graphic Artist

Like movies? Then stop watching trailers | Still Rolling

Ada Sussman October 1, 2024
Trailers might be standard procedure in movie promotion, but they're not as innocuous as they seem. In a quest for sales, trailers often misrepresent movie plots, disappointing readers and film fans.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Supreme Court slashes affirmative action: what should come next?

Editors September 11, 2023

The Supreme Court voted 6-2 on June 29 on the case Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard College in a decision which determined that affirmative action in higher education violated the Equal Protections...

Foreign Affairs Feature: The plight of Ethiopian Jews in Israel

Foreign Affairs Feature: The plight of Ethiopian Jews in Israel

International Relations Review March 14, 2022
Despite the lack of coverage, the experience of Ethiopian Jews continues to call into question what it means to be Jewish.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Rittenhouse acquittal indicative of racist nature of criminal justice system

Editors December 1, 2021
The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse is based on a system that protects and perpetuates white supremacy.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Philosophical Soup: The glorification of the U.S. military-industrial complex in film

Max Ferrandino April 14, 2021
The military thrives upon the media industry portraying the institution in a positive light.
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BU Center for Antiracist Research partners with The Boston Globe in new anti-racist publication

Yiran Yu March 25, 2021
“The Emancipator,” a multimedia site set to launch this summer, seeks to focus on racial justice.
Three women in the Queens of Syria film

BU screens ‘Queens of Syria’ doc highlighting universality of Greek plays, stories of refugees

Ilana Keusch March 9, 2021
The 2014 documentary "Queens of Syria" was screened at a BU virtual event March 2 with a following Q&A session Thursday. The film depicts how dozens of refugee women fleeing Syria banded together to perform a Greek tragedy "The Trojan Women," creating art through their grief.
New England Female Medical College. The City of Boston celebrated Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day Monday to honor the first Black female physician in the U.S. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston honors Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day — first Black woman in the US to receive medical degree

Anne Jonas February 9, 2021
Crumpler, an alumna of BUSM, became the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1864. She went on to publish the first medical book written by a Black physician in the country.
Demonstrators gathered outside the Massachusetts Statehouse Monday to ask the Biden administration to end the United States’ role in ongoing armed conflicts in Yemen. ANRAN XIE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Protesters demand end to U.S. involvement in Yemen

Rin Velasco January 26, 2021
Bostonians gathered at the steps of the Massachusetts State House to protest the military conflict in Yemen Monday afternoon, asking the Biden administration to halt support of a war that has raged since 2014.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Perhaps post-election unrest is unavoidable, no matter who wins

Editors November 5, 2020
Regardless of who clinches the presidency in 2020, it will take our nation a very long time to heal from the extreme polarization that has shot to the forefront of all discussion over the past four years. Things may die down, and we might eventually return to a more conventional presidency, but the cracks in our country may never quite mend.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: The end of slavery — Part 1

Max Ferrandino October 19, 2020
Through this series, I will argue that slavery is still a real institution that exists both abroad and domestically. Although it doesn’t behave in the same ways it did in the past, the beast of slavery has evolved in different ways around the world. 
EDITORIAL: We must address racist fundamentals of American education system

EDITORIAL: We must address racist fundamentals of American education system

Editors September 24, 2020
Racism and hatred are learned behaviors, and we must do everything in our power to teach against them in the classroom.
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