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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

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Indigenous Languages and Cultures

Decolonizing higher ed: BU’s Center for Latin American Studies hosts Indigenous Cultures and Languages Week

James Buckser April 6, 2023
From April 3 to April 6, Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies is hosting a series of speakers including academics, actors and artists as part of its Indigenous Languages and Cultures Week.
Conley Container Terminal

Boston Harbor shipping terminal completed hunt for multi-year and multi-million investment to expand globally

Emilia Wisniewski October 6, 2022
The Paul W. Conley Container Terminal at Boston Harbor, raised nearly $850 million for infrastructure improvements and global expansion with funding coming from a variety of sources.
East to West: Oct. 4, 2021

East to West: Oct. 4, 2021

Veronica Thompson October 4, 2021

Good luck with midterms! Today on East to West, we cover BU’s divestment from fossil fuels, political club’s preferences in the Boston mayoral election, the establishment of Boston’s Black...

Yvonne Tang / DFP Staff

OP-ED: The importance of culturally conscious content

Emma Sánchez September 7, 2021
Along with more diverse casting, more diverse narratives should be set on stage and screen in tandem.
Antuan Castro Del Rio at the Colombians Demand Justice protest

Boston-area demonstrators rally against economic inequality, brutality against protestors in Colombia

Anna Vidergar May 25, 2021
Demonstrators marched through Boston in opposition to violence against protesters in Colombia.
doctor shows test results to a patient

BU hosts symposium on immigrant health care, advocates health equity for all

Yiran Yu April 16, 2021
For World Chagas Day, BU experts spoke at a symposium on the importance of immigrant health care.
HIV-infected T cell

BU sociology department hosts HIV seminar with discussion on stigma, media exposure

Divya Sood March 4, 2021
Boston University's sociology department held an event Monday where researcher David Cort described how stigma around HIV can impact behavior.
“Selena: The Series,” a Netflix-original that follows the life of late Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla, debuted on Friday. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘Selena’ aims for sincerity, ends up overdone and cliché

David Simon December 7, 2020

“Selena: The Series” focuses on the life of the late Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla — played by Christian Serratos — and her rise to fame. Tinged with late-’80s and early-’90s aesthetics,...

Harvard University fellow Meir Alkon examined China’s new plan to become carbon neutral in a Global China Research Colloquium lecture hosted by the Boston University Global Policy Development Center Wednesday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU lecture on China’s energy investments reveals contradictions to clean energy goal

Sophie Nye December 4, 2020
In a BU lecture Wednesday, presenter Meir Alkon discussed how China’s international energy investments relate to the country’s goal of carbon neutrality, and said the country’s polluting practices could prevent it from reaching its goal.
The Boston University Art Initiative hosted an Afro-Columbian concert on Friday entitled “Afro-Colombian Music, Culture and Politics.” LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Afro-Colombian band performs traditional music in virtual concert at BU

Molly Farrar November 23, 2020

Colombia has the biggest Black population in a Spanish-speaking country. Despite this, Afro-Colombian music and backgrounds are not well-documented in American society, according to Boston University assistant...

Damariz Itzel Posadas Aparicio, a Master of Theological Studies candidate at Boston University’s School of Theology and recipient of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals or “DACA” program, spoke at a virtual panel on Tuesday hosted by the Latin American Studies Department on immigration reform. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU professors host ‘DACA’ panel, call for immigration reform

Yiran Yu November 2, 2020
Millions of Americans will have decided the next president by Tuesday night, and in an election as heavily contested as this year’s, a number of socio-political issues prevail on voters’ minds, including that of DACA.
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Skate on the Paradigm: The CO2-shaped elephant in the room

Andre Salkin October 22, 2020
Climate change’s inevitable impacts on Earth will have catastrophic socio-political repercussions, which will threaten the very fabric of organized human civilization.
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