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Ron DeSantis needs to read his bible | Divine Politik

Caroline McCord October 7, 2022

Perhaps the most fundamental, consentaneous, clear truth of the Bible is that there are few, if any, fundamental, consentaneous or clear truths within the sacred text at all. Many people spend their entire...

Haley Alvarez-Lauto / DFP Staff

Sing About Me: Russian rhymers are spearheading a crucial path toward freedom of speech

Aidan Mega March 22, 2022
Columnist Aidan Mega discusses Russian anti-war protests by popular Russian rappers Oxxxymorin and Morgenshtern
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Divine Politik: The war in Ukraine perfectly exemplifies Western hypocrisy

Caroline McCord March 20, 2022
War anywhere should be devastating to everyone, everywhere.
From left to right: Hailey Hart-Thompson, Yasmin Morais and Fiona Whittington. The three are Boston University alumni recognized for their entrepreneurship by BostInno’s 25 Under 25. ILLUSTRATION BY CONOR KELLEY/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

TERRIERS IN BIZ: BostInno’s 25 Under 25 recognizes past BU Terriers

Divya Sood October 6, 2021
Three BUild Lab alumni are featured by Boston Business Journal for their individual start-ups.
Inside the Refugee and Immigrant Assistance Center in Roxbury. Massachusetts. Governor Charlie Baker said in a tweet Tuesday the state is ready to assist Afghan refugees coming into the country following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul. ANH NGUYEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston advocacy groups prepare for Afghan refugees’ arrival

Daily Free Press Staff September 13, 2021
As refugees Afghanistan amidst the Taliban's takeover, Boston advocacy groups prepare to help.
children light candles at a stop asian hate protest

Activists call for equity, representation in response to anti-Asian violence

Jesús Marrero Suárez March 28, 2021
Panelists discussed systemic inequity, the model minority myth and openly racist hate crimes.
EDITORIAL: Backlog of asylum seekers scapegoat for refugee cap

EDITORIAL: Backlog of asylum seekers scapegoat for refugee cap

Editors September 18, 2018

If slashing the number of refugees allowed into the United States to a record low of 45,000 nearly a year ago wasn’t limiting enough to foreigners looking to escape violence in their home countries,...

From left to right: Khadija Noor, external relations director, Yasmin Morais, executive director, and Albert Jimenez, content/communications director created an app, RefEd, to educate refugee children in secondary school. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALBERT JIMENEZ

BU students develop app to educate refugee children

Lillian Ilsley-Greene September 16, 2018
A team of students from Boston University have created an Android app to help educate displaced children.  
From left, MA student Vicky Kelberer and Professor Noora Lori work with Professor Andrei Lapets and Boston University’s Hariri Institute members Andrei Lapets, San Tran and Frederick Jansen. PHOTO COURTESY ERIKA SIDOR/ MICROSOFT

Student-made app Urban Refuge in development stage

JenRacoosin March 1, 2018
A team of Boston University students and graduates has created an app called Urban Refuge that helps urban refugees in Amman, Jordan locate resources and non-governmental organizations near them.

New installation on Gardner Museum façade raises awareness about global displacement

Jill McKeon January 19, 2018

Hundreds of hopeful refugees huddle together on a boat and gaze hopefully toward the sky in artist Judith Barry’s latest work, displayed on the façade of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The striking...

YANK-JACOBS: Turkey and European Union deal puts politics before refugees

YANK-JACOBS: Turkey and European Union deal puts politics before refugees

Kobe Yank-Jacobs March 22, 2016

In 2015, 850,000 Syrian refugees gained access to Greece, and thereby Europe, via the Aegean Sea, according to The Guardian. Under immense political pressure to quell the refugee flow, European Union leaders...

OP-ED: Sophoclean righteousness bended: Obama's standpoint on ISIS

OP-ED: Sophoclean righteousness bended: Obama’s standpoint on ISIS

Editors November 23, 2015

Op-eds do not reflect the editorial opinion of The Daily Free Press. They are solely the opinion of the author. Athens, the top force in Greece in 431 BC, battled Sparta in commencement of the Peloponnesian...

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