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“Killers of The Flower Moon” author David Grann in “An Evening with David Grann,” a discussion held by BU’s Conversations in the Arts & Ideas on Wednesday. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BU alum David Grann, author of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ on his immersion into stories

Mara Mellits March 1, 2024
Grann, a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of best-selling books such as “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Wager” and “The Lost City of Z” spoke to BU students and faculty about his work alongside Debbie Danielpour, a film and television professor in the College of Communication.
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.
Street in Jamaica Plain neighborhood

Boston remains highly gentrified despite housing efforts

Madison Mercado February 18, 2021
Boston was ranked third most intensely gentrified city in the United States between 2013-2017. Neighborhoods like East Boston, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park and South Boston were most affected.
“The Liberator,” a four-part animated miniseries about World War II, was released on Netflix on Veteran’s Day. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

REVIEW: ‘The Liberator’ animates WWII, offers unique visual perspective

Colin Boyd November 16, 2020

Aptly released on Veterans Day this year, “The Liberator” is a visually unique tale of the courage and heroism of U.S. Lt. Col. Felix Sparks and the 157th Infantry Regiment during World War II. The...

Luca Becker

I Call Foul Play: Political leaders are sabotaging democracy with barriers to voting

Luca Becker October 29, 2020
While the people and governments of the United States champion the democratic value of voting, voter suppression has plagued this nation since its founding.
East to West: Oct. 9, 2020

East to West: Oct. 9, 2020

Justin Tang October 9, 2020

Today, we’ll cover extra steps for voters in isolation/quarantine housing, a professional fraternity under scrutiny for an unofficial gathering, young people causing an uptick in Boston coronavirus...

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.
The Christopher Columbus statue in the North End, beheaded in June, will not return to Christopher Columbus Park. Instead, a new statue that celebrates Italian heritage will take its place. COURTESY OF KATHRYN ROTONDO VIA FLICKR

Beheaded Christopher Columbus statue will not return to North End

Daniel Kool October 8, 2020
The repaired statue will instead relocate to a new affordable housing development funded by the Massachusetts Knights of Columbus.
Meredith Varner

American Protest: Native Americans are humans, not costumes or mascots

Meredith Varner April 22, 2020
It is never okay to dress up as another race or culture; that is a person’s identity and not some fun costume you get to wear on Halloween for a few hours.
Meredith Varner

American Protest: Dissecting the MAGA hat-wearing teen and Native American elder social media firestorm

Meredith Varner January 22, 2019

This past month has been anything but peaceful in all realms of politics and American life. With the federal government shutdown, Americans have been on edge as we reach an unprecedented amount of time...

Modern Musings: Confronting our colonialist past, once and for all

Modern Musings: Confronting our colonialist past, once and for all

Ausma Palmer November 29, 2018

Millions of Americans gathered around their dinner tables to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends last week. Though most no longer observe the holiday for its origins as a get-together of the...

Lessons from the Left: The alt-right’s history in America

Lessons from the Left: The alt-right’s history in America

Anna Stroinski March 25, 2018
The alt-right is understandably scary. Made up of small bands of white supremacist groups bound together by their vicious animosity toward marginalized communities, the alt-right is armed, militarized and angry because they can be. Though groups vary from khaki-wearing “intellectual” white nationalism to backwater Georgia militias defending themselves against an overreaching government, they’ve successfully bastardized two constitutional rights — that of free speech and that of bearing arms.
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