Grann, a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of best-selling books such as “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “The Wager” and “The Lost City of Z” spoke to BU students and faculty about his work alongside Debbie Danielpour, a film and television professor in the College of Communication.
Boston was ranked third most intensely gentrified city in the United States between 2013-2017. Neighborhoods like East Boston, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Mattapan, Hyde Park and South Boston were most affected.
Aptly released on Veterans Day this year, “The Liberator” is a visually unique tale of the courage and heroism of U.S. Lt. Col. Felix Sparks and the 157th Infantry Regiment during World War II. The...
While the people and governments of the United States champion the democratic value of voting, voter suppression has plagued this nation since its founding.
Today, we’ll cover extra steps for voters in isolation/quarantine housing, a professional fraternity under scrutiny for an unofficial gathering, young people causing an uptick in Boston coronavirus...
Centralizing blame on Columbus for all of the terrible things that came in his wake shifts accountability away from whole governments of people who have, and continue to, commit error.
It is never okay to dress up as another race or culture; that is a person’s identity and not some fun costume you get to wear on Halloween for a few hours.
This past month has been anything but peaceful in all realms of politics and American life. With the federal government shutdown, Americans have been on edge as we reach an unprecedented amount of time...
Millions of Americans gathered around their dinner tables to celebrate Thanksgiving with family and friends last week. Though most no longer observe the holiday for its origins as a get-together of the...
The alt-right is understandably scary. Made up of small bands of white supremacist groups bound together by their vicious animosity toward marginalized communities, the alt-right is armed, militarized and angry because they can be. Though groups vary from khaki-wearing “intellectual” white nationalism to backwater Georgia militias defending themselves against an overreaching government, they’ve successfully bastardized two constitutional rights — that of free speech and that of bearing arms.
