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A Room With a View: Ancient Greece and Italy share hospitality and xenophobia

Antonia Lehnert April 12, 2021
Before being hosted in someone’s home, one should feel welcomed in their country first.
where's the orchestra ethnomusicology of latinidad virtual event hosted by the college of fine arts and graduate music society

The intersection of music, race: A discussion of musical history in CFA x Graduate Music Society colloquium

Ramsey Khalifeh March 17, 2021
Music scholar David Garcia of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill spoke about his research Thursday at the College of Fine Arts and Graduate Music Society event "Where’s the Orchestra?’: A Reckoning for a Nineteenth Century Musicology of Latinidad in the Age of Trump."
cabinet updates at a boston university student government meeting

StuGov updates on cabinet, Mental Health Committee, constitutional amendment in weekly meeting

Anna Vidergar March 16, 2021
Boston University Student Government received cabinet updates, confirmed a Mental Health Committee co-chair and discussed a potential amendment to the StuGov constitution that would change the definition of a BU college in a Zoom meeting Monday night.
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EDITORIAL: Rising anti-Asian hate crimes illuminate broader issue of intersectionality, racism within minority groups

Editors March 16, 2021

Over the past few weeks, the media has latched onto anti-Asian American racism after a surge of anti-Asian hate crimes across the nation. Ever since COVID-19 struck the United States, the rates of these...

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Canceled: Concepts of terrorism

Bini Ollivier-Yamin January 24, 2021
It’s important the crowd of mangy white supremacists who broke into the Capitol a few weeks ago are labeled as terrorists. But do the same for the cops letting them into the building and posing for selfies, the cops participating in the insurrection and the cops who engage in acts of terrrorism on the daily.
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: Eva Longoria’s statement reveals anti-Blackness in white Latinx communities

Bini Ollivier-Yamin December 3, 2020
To truly be anti-racist, we must cancel and dismantle the toxic structures that prevent us from seeing how we perpetuate anti-Blackness and are complicit in our country’s corrupt and violent systems.
Young conservatives disillusioned with the current state of the Republican Party founded gen z gop as a refuge for Republican college students who want to vote President Donald Trump out of office. COURTESY OF GEN Z GOP

‘Politically homeless’ young conservatives seek to build Republican Party of the future

Angela Yang October 15, 2020
Conservative college students disillusioned with today’s partisan polarization are banding together to push for reform in the Republican Party and vote President Trump out of office.
High school students from Boston, Malden and Quincy demanded school administrators confront anti-Asian racism in an open letter published Sept. 21. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Local high school students demand school administrators take action against anti-Asian racism

Jun Li October 1, 2020
A group of high school students from Boston, Malden and Quincy published an open letter Sept. 21 demanding educators and superintendents take action against rising anti-Asian sentiments.
Abbigale Shi

Mind Your Business: Powerful institutions shouldn’t invalidate a language in the name of anti-racism

Abbigale Shi September 17, 2020
As a foreigner to another language, mishearing some false cognates can be dangerous. Homonyms across languages can be mistaken for slurs.
Our True Face: The “fox eye” trend neglects the underlying racism against Asians

Our True Face: The “fox eye” trend neglects the underlying racism against Asians

Maria Jimenez Moya February 27, 2020
This trend is an insidious and sophisticated form of xenophobia. Its current trendiness doesn’t excuse it from this reality. 
Bini Ollivier-Yamin

Canceled: The only disease you’re at risk of contracting is racism

Bini Ollivier-Yamin February 6, 2020
These are the types of jokes I’ve been hearing about all over campus and seeing online. I’ve overheard people casually discussing how they got out of the elevator when they saw international Chinese students get on. I’ve seen racist memes about how people won’t be eating Chinese food anytime soon. 
RENNER: Southwest Airlines removing Arabic-speaking passenger perpetuates Islamophobia

RENNER: Southwest Airlines removing Arabic-speaking passenger perpetuates Islamophobia

Elise Renner April 20, 2016

A University of California, Berkeley student was removed from his Southwest flight for speaking Arabic on the phone with his uncle, The New York Times reported. As the plane sat idle before departure,...

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