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A protester holds up a sign reading “Protect Our Students” during a university-wide walkout hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at Marsh Plaza Friday. The protest featured faculty and student speakers from Boston University and surrounding universities and a march down Commonwealth Avenue. ZACH SCHWARTZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

SJP holds ‘Liberation Week’ faculty, student walkout at Marsh Plaza

Emma Clement March 30, 2025
Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine hosted a walkout Friday at Marsh Plaza featuring faculty and staff who support justice in Palestine to cap off its “Liberation Week” demonstrations.
Tents in a pro-Palestinian encampment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology on April 23. After more than 100 demonstrators at Columbia University were arrested during a pro-Palestinian encampment protest last Thursday, university students are now setting up their own encampments after Columbia called for students to replicate the protest. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Emerson, MIT student groups set up camp amid student arrests across country

Anna Rubenstein April 24, 2024
The first day of Passover happened rather unceremoniously in the 2 Boylston St. alley. Grape juice and paper seder plates bordered a dinner table thrown together with copies of Emerson College’s student newspaper, sprawled long across the brick ground. 
A ceasefire rally outside the office of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark in Malden in November 2023. Cambridge and Somerville voted to call for a cease-fire in Gaza, although Boston has not. SYDNEY ROTH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Cambridge, Somerville formally request a cease-fire in Gaza, Boston stays silent

Daily Free Press Staff February 1, 2024
Recent calls for cease-fire in Gaza from Cambridge City Council and Somerville have prompted questions of whether Boston will join these cities in calling for an enduring halt to the Israel-Hamas war.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

The right’s transgender question | Hard Right Turn

Nathan Metcalf March 20, 2023
Is there any difference between the eradication of “transgenderism,” and the eradication of transgender people themselves?
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: Thanksgiving was a story of loss, not abundance

Caroline McCord December 1, 2021
The tradition of Thanksgiving is one that is rooted in falsehoods and racism — a fabrication of interracial harmony.
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Boston University should respect the Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag’s request to rename Myles Standish

Editors September 22, 2021
Myles Standish is a product of misplaced, racist nostalgia for some fictional American past. 
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: Your lack of intersectional feminism has real consequences

Meredith Varner March 26, 2021
Feminism must be intersectional and fight for every woman — not just the ones who look like you.
where's the orchestra ethnomusicology of latinidad virtual event hosted by the college of fine arts and graduate music society

The intersection of music, race: A discussion of musical history in CFA x Graduate Music Society colloquium

Ramsey Khalifeh March 17, 2021
Music scholar David Garcia of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spoke about his research Thursday at the College of Fine Arts and Graduate Music Society event "Where’s the Orchestra?’: A Reckoning for a Nineteenth Century Musicology of Latinidad in the Age of Trump."
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

I Call Foul Play: Ideologies that dismiss science are dangerous

Luca Becker February 26, 2021
This ideology of politicizing science — such as Trump’s politicization of the COVID-19 pandemic — already has and will continue to have large-scale consequences in the real world.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Context clues and Trump’s disease-ridden body

Bini Ollivier-Yamin October 7, 2020
I’ll admit, it is rather harsh to wish death on another human being. But it is also rather harsh, and rather stupid, to pretend context doesn’t matter.
Bearing Witness: Banality of evil is seen in the Holocaust

Bearing Witness: Banality of evil is seen in the Holocaust

Ariel Stein December 4, 2018

In light of recent anti-Semitic acts throughout the country, I have thought a considerable amount about the Holocaust and how it happend. According to the United Nations, genocide refers to the attempted...

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