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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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The United States Capitol in view among a crowd of protesters in March 2018. A group of Boston activists is traveling to Washington, D.C. for the Nov. 17 Voting Rights Now! protest to demand action on national voting rights legislation currently in Congressional gridlock. CONOR KELLEY/ DFP FILE

Boston activists travel to capital campaigning for voting rights

Jit Ping Lee November 17, 2021
Boston activists will travel to D.C. to protest for the passage of national voting rights laws.
john lewis mural at food for free in cambridge

Vandalized John Lewis mural finds new home at Cambridge nonprofit

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 15, 2021
A mural of civil rights icon John Lewis found a new home at Food for Free’s volunteer packing center in East Cambridge after being defaced in November.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael in Jackson, Mississippi at the end of the Meredith March. The new HBO documentary “King in the Wilderness” premiered Monday. PHOTO COURTESY BOB FITCH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/HBO

REVIEW: ‘King in the Wilderness’ shines a new light on Martin Luther King Jr.’s final years

Megan Antone April 5, 2018

In his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. said he would “watch God's children in their magnificent trek … through the wilderness, on toward the promised...

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