Four days left! Today on East to West, we cover BUPD tackling an alleged suspect on campus, student reports of animals in their residences, a press conference about the Derek Chauvin trial verdict...
In a Saturday march organized by Asian Coalition MA, demonstrators marched from Peter’s Park to Chinatown Gate to protest hate crimes and other acts of discrimination against Asian Americans. Participants...
As the shapers of young minds, professors are the pillars of our society. We cannot demand social progress and activism from future generations without first supporting the educators who are paving the path for us.
The incident of the failed assasination attempt turned Alexei Navalny into an international hero. If the Kremlin’s goal is to silence the opposition, it seems like putting Navalny in jail has exacerbated the problem: Thousands of protesters currently demand for his release, threatening Putin’s power and reminding him that, someday, he might have to face Navalny in the parliament elections.
The film "Judas and the Black Messiah," premiering Friday in theaters, tells the story of Fred Hampton, the deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the revolutionary Black Panther Party who was assassinated by police at 21 years old. At a roundtable discussion of college journalists, stars from the film discussed the history of the film and the activists they played.
The 2020 documentary “9to5: The Story of a Movement" — directed by Oscar-winning duo Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar — highlighted the '70s women's movement in Boston where secretaries from across the city protested against unfair wages, sexual harassment and inequalities in the workplace.
Universities need to prioritize civic engagement over traditional testing requirements. To do so, service learning needs to be intertwined with academic requirements as to not add to the amount of work we already face.
