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The Daily Free Press

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Heartland: Compassion at the crossroads of inequality in Clarksdale, Mississippi

Maxwell Pociask February 23, 2022
Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi teeming with musical history, is a perfect example of the remarkable communities and historical challenges overlooked by urban America.
student at Steve Locke exhibit in CFA

Stone Gallery exhibition honors Josef Albers’s legacy

Viktoria Popovska October 13, 2021
BU alumnus Steve Locke's "Homage to the Auction Block" accompanies Albers's "Formulations: Articulation."
faneuil hall

Social justice groups promote Faneuil Hall name change, citizens offer input

Lauren Rowlands September 20, 2021
Bostonians give their thoughts on changing the controversial name of Faneuil Hall.
student in the Yellow Rose Project gallery

‘A Yellow Rose Project’ celebrates the women’s suffrage movement through photography

Daily Free Press Staff September 7, 2021
The project features hundreds of women's photographic reflections on the anniversary of the 19th amendment's ratification.
mansfield park film on a computer screen

Cinephilia: Revisiting Patricia Rozema’s ‘Mansfield Park’

Andrew Harwood April 21, 2021
Triumphant in its dissection of class and politics, but burdened by its neglect of societal ills.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Philosophical Soup: Like the art, hate the artist

Max Ferrandino April 8, 2021
Problematic artists like Kanye West can be valued and criticized at the same time.
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy at a parade

Forgotten stories: The critical role of Black trans women in the civil rights movement

Rachel Do February 18, 2021
The often overlooked role of Black trans women in the civil rights movement was integral to the movement's success, creating a legacy a Boston activist and the assistant to the director at BU’s Center for Antiracist Research argue must be remembered.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Letter from the Editor: Listen to Black voices

Colbi Edmonds February 18, 2021
Listen to every voice in this paper. Listen to every Black person. Listen to our anger and our hurt. Because if you listen, you’ll realize we’ve been repeating the same message for a long time.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Politics Philosophized: Period pieces often glaze over a dark history

Max Ferrandino February 17, 2021
These period pieces should be taken with a grain of salt. While the clothes and houses may look pretty, unethically using and enslaving people certainly is not.
Sophia Flissler/DFP STAFF

Minority Report: Don’t defame our greatest president

Lincoln Son Currie February 11, 2021
If you consider Lincoln’s entire career, you’ll see he wasn’t a problematic president and an entirely bad man — certainly not one unworthy of having a school named after him. 
Boston University’s School of Law hosted the second installment of its “Race, Law and Inequality” speaker series on Thursday entitled “Detecting Police ad Prosecutorial Discrimination: Some Theoretical and Methodological Thoughts.” ALI AUDET/ DFP FILE

BU School of Law reflects on structural racism within US law

Rachel Do December 9, 2020

In an ideal world, laws are meant to uphold justice. However, as evidenced by a history spanning slavery and Jim Crow laws, the United States has shown that legislation can reinforce racial inequality. To...

Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Bipartisanship is a bitter pill

Gabriella Aponte November 19, 2020
Compromise can result in good outcomes, and those are ultimately what we should support and strive for — not bipartisanship for bipartisanship’s sake.
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