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Boston University celebrates Earth Week in multi-platform plans

Katarzyna Jezak April 22, 2021
Virtual activities include panel events, social media discussions and more.
Boston Ujima Project’s virtual “Meditations on Love with Black Cotton Club” event Sunday. The Boston City Council endorsed Ujima’s week-long “We Be Knowin’” webinar series, which began Sunday and continues through next Monday. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Umija Project hosts virtual community assemblies

Tanisha Bhat February 16, 2021
The Boston Ujima Project kicked off its 2021 Citywide Assembly, “We Be Knowin’: A Boston Ujima Project Celebration of Everyday Democracy” Sunday — a series of cultural events and collective community planning designed to honor local communities.
Boston-based Director Thato Rantao Mwosa’s “Memoirs of a Black Girl.” The coming-of-age film was featured in the Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Roxbury coming-of-age film celebrating Black girlhood featured in Boston Globe film festival

Ramsey Khalifeh February 10, 2021
The Boston Globe's "Black History Month Film Festival" featured Thato Rantao Mwosa's "Memoirs of a Black Girl" — a coming-of-age film made to be representative of Mwosa's students in Roxbury.
Crisis Communications Officer Mike Fernandez and Boston University faculty members discussed the importance of reaching stakeholders when problems arise in a Wednesday panel. THALIA LAUZON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU Panelists, PRLab students say crisis communication is always an essential tool

Caroline Bowden January 29, 2021
In 2020, a year marked by disaster, executives and communications professionals were thrown into economic, social and health frenzies — forced to adapt their policies and messaging to fit the fast-changing social climate. Four experts in business and public relations participated in a virtual conversation Wednesday to discuss tools businesses can use to communicate successfully during disasters.
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