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Elizabeth Warren kicks off Senate re-election campaign with Roxbury Town Hall

Anna Rubenstein April 13, 2023
Elizabeth Warren hosted her first Senate re-election campaign event in Roxbury alongside Governor Maura Healey, Mayor Michelle Wu and Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley in Roxbury.
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EDITORIAL: Summer Orientation should better promote social connection, ease new student jitters

Editors April 12, 2021
Orientation should be less focused on talking at you and more about connection and exploration.
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Activists rally against racists attacks on Asian Americans

Madison Mercado March 15, 2021
The protest joined a growing list of rallies across the country. Spectators and protesters gathered around the Parkman Bandstand painting cardboard signs with messages such as “Stop Asian Hate” and “I am not a virus.”
Protestor carrying a Black Lives Matter Flag at a Mass Action Against Police Brutality Protest in Boston

Protestors demand conviction in trial of Derek Chauvin

Sam Trottenberg March 7, 2021
Dozens of protesters gathered before 1 p.m. at Peters Park two days before the trial of Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd last May.
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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. 
Shaka King’s “Judas and the Black Messiah,” which debuts Friday, depicts an FBI informant’s betrayal of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton. HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Stars talk historical significance behind ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

Molly Farrar February 8, 2021
The film "Judas and the Black Messiah," premiering Friday in theaters, tells the story of Fred Hampton, the deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the revolutionary Black Panther Party who was assassinated by police at 21 years old. At a roundtable discussion of college journalists, stars from the film discussed the history of the film and the activists they played.
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