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The Daily Free Press

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A Trump-Vance sign in Brookline, Massachusetts. While President-elect Donald Trump plans to make changes to reproductive, healthcare, education and immigration policies, Boston’s policies maintain protections. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

How do Trump’s second term policies measure up to Massachusetts?

Emma Mullay November 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump made many large-scale promises on policies concerning key voter issues both during his campaign and since his reelection — here’s how they shape up in Boston and Massachusetts.
The Pickering Library

Boston University’s Pickering Educational Resources Library showcases banned books

Henry Braun March 23, 2023
This past month Boston University’s Pickering Educational Resources Library, located in the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development building, created a “freadom” shelf — a banned books display in response to a surge in book bans throughout the United States.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

EDITORIAL: Banning books and axing APs — America’s anti-intellectualism problem

Editors January 25, 2023
As anti-intellectualism becomes more and more partisan, it also becomes harder to ignore.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: State of the Union … more like State of the Boring

Editors March 4, 2022

On Tuesday, President Biden delivered the first State of the Union of his presidency. Yet many Americans could not be bothered to listen to the leader of their country lay out a series of plans and objectives...

Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Modern Toolbox: Why the economy needs you to vote Democrat in the midterms

Jaeyoung Choi February 23, 2022
This wouldn’t be a problem if the rise in prices is matched by economic growth and wage growth — but it isn’t being matched. Inflation, today, has gone past what the Federal Reserve had deemed the target. In December 2021, we were sitting at a 7% year-over-year rate, the fastest pace of inflation since 1982. 
Senior Diversity Officer Andrea Taylor delivers a welcome statement at SDO’s Critical Race Theory panel. SDO, in collaboration with other Boston University schools and departments, hosted a panel discussing CRT after it was banned from being taught in 24 states. AMANDA CUCCINIELLO/DFP STAFF

Senior Diversity Office hosts panel to educate students on Critical Race Theory

Daily Free Press Staff February 15, 2022
A panel on Feb. 10 by the BU SDO discussed critical race theory to give “context, clarity and resources” on CRT to students.
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

Seen On TV: Virginia governor’s race becomes latest battle in the culture war

Brian Foisy November 8, 2021
Virginia’s gubernatorial race may be the latest example of the motivations of the mainstream media being ratings-based instead of information-based
Ibram X. Kendi

Kendi, Center for Antiracist Research aim to inspire policy change

Colbi Edmonds February 18, 2021
Kendi serves as the founder and director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research, which launched in July with the stated mission of understanding, explaining and solving seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.
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