With the recent executive crackdown on universities for pro-Palestine activism, the incident with Phillips’ signage sparked dialogue among BU faculty and students over administrative responses to free speech on campus.
Boston University hired Ibram X. Kendi to lead its new Center for Antiracist Research in 2020, a year marked by a global pandemic and nationwide racial tension. Three years later, after at least $43 million in grants and gifts and what sources say has been an underwhelming output of research, the Center for Antiracist Research laid off almost all of its staff last week.
President Robert Brown announced in a university-wide email Tuesday the formation of two committees that will focus on freedom of expression on campus.
Voter turnout for municipal elections in Boston Tuesday was much lower than the last mayoral election, with roughly 28 percent of approximately 392,188 registered voters casting their votes.
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Boston has hit a record high of 408,669 registered voters as of Monday, according to Sabino Piemonte, the elections chief for the city.
The number is expected to increase, since the Boston Election...
Four Massachusetts churches filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey in response to an amendment that regulates the...
