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The Daily Free Press

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Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

EDITORIAL: Monica Cannon-Grant reminds us a movement is more meaningful than its mastermind

Editors March 17, 2022
What was for Cannon-Grant a few thousand in unreported income is now being used to discredit nonprofits and perhaps even the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole. 
boston university college democrats spring panel

BU College Democrats hold annual Spring panel, discuss activism

Vanessa Bartlett April 16, 2021
Faculty and activists discussed the experiences and challenges faced when organizing for change.
Protesters march through Boston to demand justice for Breonna Taylor

Protesters march through Boston to demand justice for Breonna Taylor

Daniel Kool September 26, 2020
Activists gathered at a park across from Boston Police District B-2 in Roxbury Friday evening to protest a grand jury decision not to press criminal charges for the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed by Louisville, Ky. police in March.
Teenage students from Boston Public Schools walked out of class Monday afternoon in protest of school closures and gun homicides. HANNAH SCHOENBAUM/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BPS students ‘die-in’ outside Walsh’s office to protest gun violence, school foreclosures

Hannah Schoenbaum November 20, 2018
"Step over our dead bodies," Dorchester resident Latasha Thompson demanded of City of Boston employees as they waded through a sea of seemingly lifeless children’s bodies sprawled in the hallway outside Boston Mayor Martin Walsh’s office Monday afternoon.
Boston City Council meets Tuesday night at a hearing in Roxbury to discuss violence in the city. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ABIGAIL FREEMAN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

City Council analyzes violence among young people in the city

Nadya Korytnikova April 5, 2017

Following the shooting of a 5-year-old boy Sunday night in Roxbury, the Boston City Council’s Committee on Public Safety and Criminal Justice met Tuesday night to address the issue of increased violence...

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