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Race

Professor Elie Wiesel sits talking with his teaching assistant, Ariel Burger.

Arts & Culture

Witness to Lessons of Elie Wiesel

November 12, 2018

3 headshots of political candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (CAS’11), Gina Ortiz Jones (CAS’03, GRS’03), and Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts candidate for the House of Representatives

LGBTQ

Not Politics as Usual

November 1, 2018

The cracked sidewalk outside of the entrance to the playground behind the Trotter School in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston

Politics

US Mayors: Blacks, Trans, Muslim, and Immigrants Face Discrimination

September 17, 2018

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrartes with supporters at a victory party in the Bronx after upsetting incumbent Democratic Representative Joseph Crowly on June 26, 2018 in New York City. Ocasio-Cortez upset Rep. Joseph Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Race

BU Alumna Wins Upset Congressional Primary in New York City

June 27, 2018

Umoja President Sernah Essien addressing the audience at the first ever Rite of Passage ceremony honoring black graduating students

Diversity

Umoja Celebrates Seniors’ Rite of Passage

May 18, 2018

Rep John Lewis

Politics

Commencement Speaker Rep. John Lewis Champions Civil Rights

May 17, 2018

Déanna Clarke-Campbell (CAS’21) performs

Theatre

Hamilton Music Gets an Infusion of New Voices

April 30, 2018

Charles Merzbacher (left), a COM associate professor, Robert Margo (right), a CAS professor of economics

Television

Economist, Film and Television Profs Win Teaching Awards

April 20, 2018

BU Running Club on a weekend run along the Minuteman Bikeway in Cambridge.

SAO

BU Running Club Blazes Its Own Trail

April 11, 2018

Ed Coaxum speaks at a memorial service on for Martin Luther King, Jr. the day after he was assassinated, Marsh Plaza, Boston University, 1968

University News

Alums Share Memories of Dark Days of April 1968

April 4, 2018

Martin Luther King leading march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans. Beside King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.

Race

POV: As It Was for MLK, the Present and Future Should Be Our Focus

April 2, 2018

University News

Checking Your (White) Privilege at the Door

February 27, 2018

African Studies

60 Seconds of Blackness

February 21, 2018

A photo series inspired by the meaning of the color red in Chinese culture. Photo by Evan Vidan

Creative Writing

Expressing Themselves in Charcoal

February 7, 2018

808 Comm Ave building exterior

Race

Expanding Howard Thurman Center to Move to 808 Comm Ave

November 27, 2017

Kelly Nee, chief of the Boston University Police Department

BUPD

BU Police Chief Appointed to Governor’s Hate Crimes Task Force

November 8, 2017

Robert E. Lee confederate civil war monument in Charlottesville, VA

Voices & Opinion

POV: The Controversy over Confederate Civil War Monuments

September 25, 2017

Professor Tom Whalen poses for a photo in front of Fenway Park

Books

Revisiting the Spirit of ’67

August 29, 2017

Hundreds gathered on the University of Virginia campus for a candlelight vigil against hate and violence days after Charlottesville erupted in chaos during the "Unite the Right" white nationalist rally.

Robert Brown

BU President Responds to Charlottesville Violence

August 17, 2017

Onaje X. O. Woodbine

Alumni

Of Hoops and Healing

July 3, 2017

Of Hoops and Healing