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Asian Americans helped destroy affirmative action. Now what? | Identity Unveiled

Rebecca Peng February 11, 2025
Access to equal rights has always been controlled by those with wealth and privilege, so it’s ironic that the SFA uses the term “fair” in their title. History has undeniably been unfair to certain groups, and although affirmative action is not a perfect solution, it was designed to help level the playing field. While many want to believe individual success is purely merit-based, claiming that white success bears no benefit from racial factors is absurd.
Biden Cancer Moonshot

GALLERY: Biden delivers Cancer Moonshot speech in Boston

Clare Ong September 19, 2022
President Joe Biden delivered his Cancer Moonshot speech at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston on Sept. 12.
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BU Diversity, Inclusion hosts special education professor for discussion on history of disability movement

Kendall Richards October 14, 2021
Michael Wehmeyer presented the disability movement as three parts — professionals, parents and self-advocates.
hands of different ages

Generation names explained

Veronica Thompson March 15, 2021
A “generation” is defined as a group of people born in the same time period, and generation names exemplify our human tendency to categorize ourselves. Here’s a brief, non-comprehensive list of the Western cultural generations.
Burt Glass, marketing and communications director at Boston University’s College of Communication, moderated a Virtual Speaker Series panel Wednesday entitled “Political Ads: What Do Candidates Get For $1 Billion?” hosted by COM. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

COM professors, political scientists say political ads can persuade low-interest voters

Mita Kataria October 16, 2020
With a presidency and 35 Senate seats to decide on in less than a month, candidates are leaving no stone unturned to appeal to their voters. Boston University’s College of Communication hosted a panel Wednesday entitled, “Political Ads: What Do Candidates Get For $1 Billion?”
Joel Herbert

Diamonds and Rust: Columbus — The Myth, the Monster, the Man

Joel Herbert October 8, 2020
Centralizing blame on Columbus for all of the terrible things that came in his wake shifts accountability away from whole governments of people who have, and continue to, commit error.
Lincoln Son Currie

Minority Report: Democrats, reject the last acceptable prejudice

Lincoln Son Currie September 29, 2020
No person should have their faith used against them as proof that they are or are not loyal to America. I hope Democrats do not spout the dual loyalty lie and preserve the last acceptable prejudice.
Religious choral group The Seraphim Singers perform a female-composed concert at the First Church in Cambridge Sunday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Seraphim Singers perform female-composed concert for female empowerment

David Simon March 5, 2020
The Seraphim Singers, a religious choral group grounded in modern-day social issues, performed at the First Church in Cambridge on Sunday with a concert entitled “Nevertheless, She Persisted,” inspired by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s testimony during Jeff Sessions’s Attorney General nomination hearings.
Pressley begins her speech at Davis Square’s Diesel Cafe in late August, just weeks before her historic victory on Sept. 6. CHLOE GRINBERG/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Ayanna Pressley fights for college students, prepares for primary election

Vigunthaan Tharmarajah September 3, 2018
Change has come, gone away and come again in the realm of U.S. politics. But this moment in Democratic politics seems particularly potent: in state after state, the narrow, ironclad profile of who can run and who can win at the highest levels of politics has been irreversibly expanded.
The New Rambler: Conspiracy theories are the effects and antagonists of democracy

The New Rambler: Conspiracy theories are the effects and antagonists of democracy

Dan Dellechiaie December 5, 2017

As some of my readers know, I am afraid of being alone. This weekend, for example, when I was worried that I had missed the last train of the night, I started talking to the woman next to me on the platform...

The John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site in Brookline is decorated for Halloween. PHOTO BY LILIAN LI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Release of JFK files fuels interest among BU students and professors

Caroline Smith October 31, 2017

Thousands of documents pertaining to President John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination released by the National Archives last Thursday revived the national conversation about government involvement...

Woody Harrelson, Rob Reiner and Doris Kearns Goodwin speak at the Brattle Theatre Oct. 18. PHOTO BY ANTONIA DEBIANCHI/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

‘LBJ’ actor, director, expert discuss President Johnson’s complex legacy

Antonia DeBianchi October 20, 2017

From the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the decision to head into the Vietnam War, Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency and legacy render him a “very complex, Shakespearean character,”...

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