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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.
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences senior Josh Prinzo poses with Paris Hilton at a protest supporting the #BreakCodeSilence movement aimed at supporting survivors of the troubled team industry. COURTESY OF JOSH PRINZO

CAS student shares personal experience with ‘troubled teen’ industry

Sophia Yakumithis November 24, 2020
One afternoon, Josh Prinzo was escorted onto a bus and taken to a wilderness camp with no prospect of returning home for seven months. The BU senior became one of hundreds of teenagers forced into a behavioral facility for rebellious teenagers.
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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Politics Philosophized: The end of slavery — Part 2

Max Ferrandino October 27, 2020
It is a common belief that slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment, but a closer look at Section One of this amendment will disprove that idea.
Max Gonzalez (CAS '16) protests solitary confinement by sitting in a 7 feet by 9 feet rectangle, which are similar to the dimensions of a solitary confinement cell. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students protest for prison reform through art demonstration

Steve Friedman October 16, 2014

Umoja, Boston University’s Black Student Union, hosted a “Solitary Confinement Performance Art Project” Wednesday in front of the George Sherman Union to raise awareness for prison reform efforts. For...

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