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And the Oscar goes to…your binge list: Six Academy Award-nominated movies to watch

Ananya Swaroop February 26, 2025
The anticipation around Oscar Day is high, so here is just the thing for you to get over the jitters — an Oscars binge list. This guide has some of the best movies of 2024 — from visually stunning sci-fi epics to exciting dramas and musical masterpieces.
Annika Morris | Graphic Artist

The internet’s unfortunate idolization of Gypsy Rose Blanchard | Editorial

Editors January 22, 2024
Gypsy Rose Blanchard was met with online support after being released from prison for the murder of her abusive mother. While her crime can be absolved, can Gen Z's "unseriousness?"
race, prison, justice: illuminating story through the arts virtual gallery

New collaborative virtual gallery by the CFA Prison Arts Project encourages activism

Daily Free Press Staff April 28, 2021
The “living gallery” highlights stories U.S. incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals.
prison cell block

CFA faculty explores art, activism in Prison Arts Project event

Molly Farrar April 20, 2021
As part of the Prison Arts Project, BU groups held an event about how mass incarceration affects kids.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: The lack of gender equality in health care is life-threatening

Meredith Varner April 16, 2021
My body and right to health care are dictated by far too many people.
babam musician plays a tuba at an aclu march

Boston remains soundtracked by protest

Jesús Marrero Suárez April 8, 2021
The Boston Area Brigade of Activist Musicians draw inspiration from New Orleans street bands.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Despite severity, the Boston Marathon bomber’s actions don’t justify the immorality of capital punishment

Editors March 23, 2021
The death penalty is immoral and an amplifier of existing racial inequities in our judicial system.
prison cell block

COVID-19 exacerbates Massachusetts DOC health care shortcomings

Colbi Edmonds March 11, 2021
Michael Horrell, a staff attorney at Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts — an organization focused on protecting civil rights of people in prisons — said the pandemic has worsened the quality of health care in the state’s correctional facilities, which has “never been great.”
Emma Moneuse/DFP STAFF

Gender Justice: The sexual abuse to prison pipeline for women and girls

Meredith Varner March 5, 2021
People deserve second chances, support and help. It is time our country gets its humanity back and starts to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate.
Let Your Hair Down: The fight for racial justice is a commitment

Let Your Hair Down: The fight for racial justice is a commitment

Hannah Bohn January 25, 2021
Performative activism is the new Band-Aid for white fragility. With a new president leading the country, the conversation about racism should only continue and expand, and our dedication to racial equality needs to be stronger than ever.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Eva Longoria’s statement reveals anti-Blackness in white Latinx communities

Bini Ollivier-Yamin December 3, 2020
To truly be anti-racist, we must cancel and dismantle the toxic structures that prevent us from seeing how we perpetuate anti-Blackness and are complicit in our country’s corrupt and violent systems.
After an extensive investigation, the Department of Justice has concluded that the Massachusetts Department of Corrections violated the 8th Amendment by providing insufficient mental health support to prisoners. COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA

Mass. Department of Corrections violates constitutional rights, DOJ finds

Rin Velasco November 20, 2020
Through an exhaustive investigation of the Massachusetts DOC, the DOJ found that prisoners on mental health watch were left under-supervised, resulting in them hurting or killing themselves, according to a DOJ press release. 
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