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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Crosse-Eyed: Boston dominates professional lacrosse with some hometown help

Chris Larabee March 31, 2025
The 2025 Lexus Championship Series crowned champions in both the men’s Premier Lacrosse League and the brand-new Women’s Lacrosse League Feb. 17.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Fighting for abortion rights is exhausting | The Perfectly Imperfect Human Condition

Lillian Chapman November 12, 2023
The exhausting struggle for reproductive rights makes it hard to be excited about Ohio Issue 1 because Republicans are already promising to try and reverse it.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Minority Report: Loving won

Lincoln Son Currie March 31, 2022
We should recognize and appreciate the progress that’s been made on a very important issue — love — in just the past 55 years.
Matthew Fowler at Club Passim

REVIEW: Matthew Fowler opens at Club Passim

Molly Farrar September 20, 2021
Fowler's new album "The Grief We Gave Our Mother" has strong folk ballads and catchy acoustic sounds.
Flags in the Questrom School of Business at boston university

Boston observes first Arab American Heritage Month

Molly Farrar April 14, 2021
The Boston City Council declared April Arab American Heritage Month during its April 7 meeting.
New England Female Medical College. The City of Boston celebrated Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day Monday to honor the first Black female physician in the U.S. ILLUSTRATION BY HANNAH YOSHINAGA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston honors Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day — first Black woman in the US to receive medical degree

Anne Jonas February 9, 2021
Crumpler, an alumna of BUSM, became the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States in 1864. She went on to publish the first medical book written by a Black physician in the country.
The Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources has detected signs of the invasive Spotted Lanternfly species in the state. COURTESY OF WALTHERY VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Signs of invasive spotted lanternfly found in Massachusetts

Joy Pereira September 30, 2020
Massachusetts officials have found signs of an invasive insect that could threaten the state’s trees and agricultural industry.
Demonstrators in front of a Roxbury police station, protesting police brutality. On Wednesday, Boston University held a Day of Collective Engagement to encourage faculty and students to have conversations about race. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Faculty, students spend day engaging in multi-faceted conversations on race

Cameron Morsberger June 24, 2020
BU hosted a “Day of Collective Engagement: Racism and Antiracism, Our Realities and Our Roles” Wednesday to encourage campus-wide conversation about racism. 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren embraces a supporter during her visit to Cambridge, where she voted in the Massachusetts primary Tuesday morning. VIGUNTHAAN THARMARAJAH/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Biden collects wins on Super Tuesday, Warren loses home state

Angela Yang March 4, 2020

Super Tuesday drew to a close in Massachusetts with former Vice President Joe Biden emerging victorious. The candidate took 33.7 percent of votes with 80.5 percent of precincts reporting, earning 31 delegates...

Modern Musings: New Yorkers should be enraged about the Amazon deal

Modern Musings: New Yorkers should be enraged about the Amazon deal

Ausma Palmer November 19, 2018

It was officially announced last week that Amazon’s new headquarters — known as HQ2 — will be split between Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, and Long Island City in the New York borough of Queens....

EDITORIAL: It’s better for Boston that Amazon takes HQ2 elsewhere

EDITORIAL: It’s better for Boston that Amazon takes HQ2 elsewhere

Editors November 13, 2018

Boston has been holdings its breath for months waiting for Amazon to release the winners of its HQ2 contest, determining where its second headquarters will be housed and determining which city is most...

7th Inning Stretch: Okay, Boston, it’s time for a change

7th Inning Stretch: Okay, Boston, it’s time for a change

Jacob Gurvis September 14, 2017

On Tuesday night, I walked across the David Ortiz Bridge, through a packed Yawkey Way, and into beautiful Fenway Park. I enjoyed a ball game where the Boston Red Sox won easily, 11-1. As the Sox trounced...

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