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MFA launches first-annual Japanese film festival

By Diana Leane January 31, 2018

This Thursday, the Museum of Fine Arts is launching its first-annual Japanese film festival with the screening of the film “Your Name.” The Boston Festival of Films from Japan will join the ranks...

‘Futureland’ reveals global shipping industry’s effect on environment

By Diana Leane January 25, 2018

Paintings of everyday objects floating in bright blue seas hang from hooks against the white walls of Fort Point Arts Community’s gallery. A wooden crate filled with images of bananas lies on the floor...

BU students express concerns about struggling with self-care, detachment from community

By Olivia Ritter January 24, 2018

Forty-seven percent of students feel detached from Boston University’s community, according to a handout distributed at a listening session on Monday about mental health on campus. The BU Mental Health...

Boston artist in residence Marsha Parrilla choreographs empathy, community

By Jenni Todd January 24, 2018

Marsha Parrilla cannot remember precisely when she began dancing, but some of her earliest memories include impromptu salsa lessons in her childhood home and dancing around San Juan, where she grew up. Decades...

‘Nonbinary’ exhibition offers glimpse into life beyond gender binary

By Diana Leane January 18, 2018

In the intimate space of the restaurant-bookstore combo of Tres Gatos, restaurant-goers wandered to the colorful portraits hung on the walls. In each photo, one of five individuals posed within the space...

Boston University’s African Student Organization invites BU students to discuss the Libyan Slave Trade Tuesday night. PHOTO BY JENNY JASMIN ROLLINS/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students meet to combat, discuss Libyan slave trade

By Jenny Jasmin Rollins December 8, 2017

In October, a CNN team went to Libya and filmed a dozen men being auctioned off for as little as $400. On Nov. 13, they published an interview with 21-year-old Victory from Edo State in Nigeria. This...

Boston University African Students Organization and Brothers United host an event at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Sunday afternoon about caring for kinky or curly hair. PHOTO BY JESSICA RICHARDSON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students discuss natural hair movement, politics within black community

By Tyla Pink December 7, 2017

Students circled Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground as Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar and Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” played in the background as they waited for...

Boston University African Students Organization and Brothers United host an event at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Sunday afternoon about caring for kinky or curly hair. PHOTO BY JESSICA RICHARDSON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Students discuss natural hair movement, politics within black community

By Tyla Pink December 6, 2017

Students circled Boston University’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground as Erykah Badu, Kendrick Lamar and Solange’s “Don’t Touch My Hair” played in the background as they waited for the...

Boston University African Students Organization and Brothers United host an event at the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Sunday afternoon about caring for kinky or curly hair. PHOTO BY JESSICA RICHARDSON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Campus groups organize discussion on mental health in minority communities

By Diana Leane December 6, 2017

Fardowsa Abdulle said she hid her mental health struggles throughout high school, which she often felt intrusively intimate. Abdulle concealed such struggles from her immigrant parents, too, because...

Scott Fried speaks about his relationship with religion and homosexuality at Boston University Tuesday evening. PHOTO BY MAGGIE LEONE/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

HIV advocate speaks about experience being gay, religious

By Olivia Ritter November 30, 2017

“Be with me,” Scott Fried said, beginning his lecture to Boston University students on Tuesday. After calling upon his audience to hear him, and leading a Hebrew prayer to invite God, the award-winning...

Her Campus hosts a panel discussion on social media branding at the Kenmore Classroom Building on Tuesday evening. PHOTO BY VIGUNTHAAN THARMARAJAH/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Social media influences reveal paths to success, offer students advice

By Jill McKeon November 29, 2017

People are brands. Brands are people. This is the message that Her Campus promoted in their latest panel on social media influencers. “Let’s Talk Social Media Branding,” an event hosted by...

Dev Blair is the creator of the #PoorAtAPrivateUniversity campaign and a performance artist at Boston University. PHOTO BY ADRIANA DIAZ/ DFP FILE PHOTO

Dev Blair on infusing art with activism

By Jack Moriarity November 29, 2017

“Diamonds tempered like steel, honed in the flames of my own oppression to forge me into the sword of truth.” An applause of snaps and mummers of agreements emerged from the crowd at the Lilly...

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