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A Trump-Vance sign displayed in Brookline. Boston-based organizations, schools and government officials prepare to preserve the city’s immigrant and international student populations following President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to launch a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Boston braces for Trump’s immigration crackdown

Leia Green November 21, 2024
Community leaders are preparing to preserve Boston’s immigrant and international student populations as the incoming Trump administration warns of a national immigration crackdown.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Bubble Burst: Representing girlhood

Lydia Evans March 24, 2022
It’s not odd to experience a first crush or to grow frustrated at the strange stage between child and adulthood, but because the media lacks such depictions, girlhood is seen as abnormal. 
Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

Highway to Health: U.S. healthcare system is sustaining the inequitable quality of care crisis

Bailey Salimes December 8, 2021
Millions of people in the United States are in medical debt crises, with many asking if they can afford to live.
Zili Misik performing at BU

BU Global Music Festival revives live festival experience on campus

Kendall Richards September 20, 2021
BU Arts Initiative brought together sounds from South America, Africa and Asia for Saturday's festival.
"In the Heights" cast members

Stars talk long-awaited ‘In the Heights’ blockbuster

Lily Kepner June 3, 2021
At the roundtable, the stars spoke about their personal connections to the characters and the film, and the universality of the story.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Ancient Greece and Italy share hospitality and xenophobia

Antonia Lehnert April 12, 2021
Before being hosted in someone’s home, one should feel welcomed in their country first.
babam musician plays a tuba at an aclu march

Boston remains soundtracked by protest

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 8, 2021
The Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians draw inspiration from New Orleans street bands.
employees around a table in a conference room

BU alumni discuss diversity, inclusion in modern workplace

Connor Allen April 6, 2021
Alumni from various BU majors spoke on their experience with inclusion in the workplace at a panel.
children light candles at a stop asian hate protest

Activists call for equity, representation in response to anti-Asian violence

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 28, 2021
Panelists discussed systemic inequity, the model minority myth and openly racist hate crimes.
st patrick's day celebration in south boston

Boston celebrates second COVID-era St. Patrick’s Day

Taylor Brokesh March 17, 2021
South Boston’s traditional St. Patrick’s Day Parade was canceled for the second year in a row.
demonstrators at a stop asian hate protest in boston common

Activists rally against racists attacks on Asian Americans

Madison Mercado March 15, 2021
The protest joined a growing list of rallies across the country. Spectators and protesters gathered around the Parkman Bandstand painting cardboard signs with messages such as “Stop Asian Hate” and “I am not a virus.”
boston children's hospital

Massachusetts vaccine distribution contributes to long-term health care inequities

Sam Trottenberg March 11, 2021
The state’s Black and Latinx populations each suffered 10 percent more COVID-19 cases in the first half of 2020 and saw a death rate three times that of white residents.
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