The annual Alternative Service Breaks program through the Community Service Center at BU is continuing virtually over three weekends in place of their usual spring break trips around the nation — serving organizations remotely in the Greater Boston Area and beyond.
Over the past few weeks, the media has latched onto anti-Asian American racism after a surge of anti-Asian hate crimes across the nation. Ever since COVID-19 struck the United States, the rates of these...
A series of speakers — ranging from musicians to nurses to union organizers — called for equal pay between men and women, noted the disproportionate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mothers and emphasized the need for intersectionality.
“We know that the climate crisis of course is a public health crisis, and that the investments we need to make in resiliency and sustainability are opportunities to improve health and the economic well-being of our residents," Campbell said.
The Boston University Alumni and Friends Association held a virtual panel on Intersectionality on Tuesday where panelists discussed their personal experiences and how the Black community — particularly Black LGBTQ+ individuals — are at a disadvantage within larger systems.
A line of more than 300 people snaked around the Rafik B. Hariri building that houses the Questrom School of Business to get a good seat to see Kimberlé Crenshaw, a civil rights lawyer and the mind behind the intersectionality theory, speak on Monday.
Not a day goes by in which a woman’s appearance is not criticized. Not a day goes by where people don’t place a woman into categories of promiscuity or the opposite based off of what she wears.
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As part of Boston University’s Sexual Assault Awareness Week, the BU Sexual Assault Response and Prevention Center and at least six other BU organizations co-sponsored the screening of a documentary and a panel focused on masculinity and the #MeToo movement Tuesday night.
Each year, the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show airs on television, featuring women who display lingerie lines to the public. By many, it is considered the most popular fashion event of the year, with...
