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The Daily Free Press

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Melissa Park | Graphic Artist

There’s no place like home

Keira Footer February 26, 2025
I’m worried that something similar might happen when I return from college. Instead of feeling comfortable and relieved, I’ll feel unfamiliar and awkward, like I’m staying at a friend’s house for a week before I return to Boston. I’ve often heard sayings such as “home is where the heart is,” but how am I supposed to call this new place “home” without the proper time to love it? 
Samantha Sanders | Graphic Artist

‘The Woman in Me’: Britney Spears is sharing her story, on her terms

Lucas De Oliveira November 6, 2023
“The Woman in Me” was released on Oct. 24, and after starting the book the minute I was able to get a copy, I finished the memoir two days later. I just couldn’t put it down.
Annika Morris | Graphic Artist

Maude Latour: a pop breakout star

Layne Sheplee October 29, 2023
Maude Latour may not be the sun, but she is my rising star. The 24-year-old emerging singer-songwriter makes use of consistently catchy pop songs and a dynamic stage presence to path her way to fame — and has quickly integrated herself into being one of my favorite artists.
Boston Public Library Three Mothers webinar

BPL event highlights book on forgotten female ‘changemakers’ in civil rights history

Caroline Bowden February 25, 2021
Anna Malaika Tubbs' spoke about her debut book "The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation" at a Boston Public Library conversation Tuesday. Her book highlights Alberta King, Louise Little and Berdis Baldwin, forgotten changemakers in U.S. history.
GALLERY: BU students protest sexual assault on campus

GALLERY: BU students protest sexual assault on campus

Hannah Yoshinaga February 8, 2021

Boston University students protested Sunday night against the University's handling of sexual assault cases on campus. Organizers from Campus Survivors provided posters, chalk, tape and spray paint to...

A message left by protesters in East Campus at Sunday night's sexual assault protest LILY KEPNER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Campus Survivors holds sexual assault protest, demands University listen

Lily Kepner February 8, 2021
Nearly a month after BU junior Prisha Kumar’s second open letter condemning the University’s treatment of sexual assault was released to the public — after an initial letter written in June — Kumar and the other co-founders of the @campus.surviors Instagram account organized an on-campus protest, demanding a response from the administration.
BUPD asks public to help identify individual who placed neo-Nazi poster

BUPD asks public to help identify individual who placed neo-Nazi poster

Weihua Li May 5, 2016

Boston University released a surveillance video Thursday morning of an individual placing a racist poster on the window of a popular campus building, and officials are now asking for the public’s...

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