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Voices & Opinion

Photo of a trader (a White, bald man wearing a blue jacket) working on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. He has his left hand on his face and looks concerns as he types at a computer screen. Other people working on computers and large screens with stock information on them are seen blurred behind him.

Business & Finance

Interest Rates Are Up, Stocks Are Down. What’s Next for the Economy?

June 20, 2022

Photo taken from behind a Jewish worshipper as they sit in a synagogue. They wear a blue and white star of David kippah. The space is darkened but they are spotlighted.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Antisemitic Mapping Project Likely to Lead to More Anti-Jewish Violence

June 16, 2022

Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, gestures during the subcommittee's hearings on Wednesday, July, 26, 1972 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Harvey Georges)

Student Voices

Pell Grant 50th Anniversary: Two BU Students Share How It Changed Their Lives

June 16, 2022

Photo of Chantel James, a young Black woman with clear glasses. She smiles, and wears a white blouse with tufted sleeves. She leans against a window in a room, presumably an office. Small pastel-colored rainbows are overlaid at left and right of the photo.

Pride

My Coming Out Story: Chantel James

June 15, 2022

Participants march in the Juneteenth celebration parade, sponsored by the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz, through the streets of Harlem in New York on Saturday, June 18, 2010. Juneteenth, which refers to June 19, 1865, is celebrated as the day the news of the Emancipation reached Galveston, Texas brought by General Gordon Granger and a force of Union soldiers. Their arrival took place 2-1/2 years after Lincoln declared American slaves free on Sept. 22, 1862. (© Richard B. levine) Photo is black and white.

Community Voices

What Juneteenth Means to Me: a Photo Essay

June 14, 2022

Jane Harman, from Takoma Park, Md., holds a sign during a Students Demand Action event, near the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, Monday, June 6, 2022, in Washington. The group demanded action on gun safety in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Politics

Student’s Petition Asks BU to Divest from Gun Manufacturers

June 13, 2022

A sad child sits alone on a dirty sidewalk

Politics

POV: US Child Welfare System Is Falling Short Because of Persistent Child Poverty

June 10, 2022

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Employment

Pros and Cons of the Four-Day Workweek

June 8, 2022

PRIDE

My Coming Out Story: Luis Menéndez-Antuña

June 8, 2022

Photo of a person with fingernails painted a glittery pink holds hands in prayer in front of them. Only hands and front of pink shirt are visible, as they stand in front of a pale blue background.

Voices & Opinion

POV: The White Progressive Christian Church Needs to Adopt a Theology of Anger

June 3, 2022

Photo of Arié Haddad helping to set up turf on wall. He stands on the ground as he helps hold up the turf for two others standing on ladders and attaching it to a cement wall.

Arts on Campus

Mural, Mural on the Wall: Two Student-Led Art Projects Installed on Campus

June 2, 2022

A photo of Queen Elizabeth II smiling at the camera in regalia. Honored guests King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands and King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain join the British Royal Family at the service and ceremony for The Most Noble Order of the Garter held at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle on June 17th 2019. Members of The British Royal Family in attendance included: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William The Duke of Cambridge, Catherine The Duchess of Cambridge, Charles The Prince of Wales, Camilla The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Edward The Earl of Wessex, Sophie The Countess of Wessex and Anne The Princess Royal. (Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK)

VOICES & OPINION

POV: The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Is Cause for Celebration

May 31, 2022

a photo of Scarlett Lewis (COM’20), with her son Jesse a few months before his death in the Sandy Hook shootings. He is mid-jump into her arms as she stands in a pool wearing a white floral bathing suit.

School Shootings

Sandy Hook Mother: Guns Are Not the Root Cause of Mass Shootings

May 26, 2022

Image of a map of the lower 48 states of the United States in tan. Overlaid are a serious of red dots indicating the number of gun violence deaths in 2022 so far. The dots are concentrated around the coasts, but no state is without dots.

Voices & Opinion

POV: The Killing We Continue to Fail to Stop

May 25, 2022

Law enforcement personnel stand outside Robb Elementary School following a shooting, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Safety

The Long, Failed History of Gun Control Legislation

May 25, 2022

Collage: Composite image showing studio portraits of various Boston University faculty, staff, and students in three rows of three. From left to right, top to bottom, portraits show: Kaye-Alese Green, Jonathan Feingold, Nana Boateng, Saida Grundy, Amos Mwaura, Imara Joroff, Andre De Quadros, Andrea Taylor, and Amanda Bailey.

Community Voices

Two Years after George Floyd’s Murder, What’s Changed? What’s Next?

May 24, 2022

Photo of Hector Grande posing for a photo at EPIC. He wears a black, red, and white shirt and black jacket as he gazes to the left amidst mechanical equipment. Photo background has is stylized with a burgundy filter and text on screen reads "My First-Gen Story"

FIRST-GEN

My First-Gen Story: Hector Grande

May 18, 2022

Photo of people praying, two young Black men and one White women, outside the scene of Saturday's shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. Behind them, the TOPS supermarket sign is seen across the parking lot. Also in the parking lot a parked police van.

Voices & Opinion

POV: CFA Dean, a Buffalo Native, on How Shooter Exploited Housing Segregation to Find His Targets

May 17, 2022

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AAPI HERITAGE MONTH

POV: As We Observe AAPI Month, We Should Be Emphasizing History, Not Heritage

May 17, 2022

Photo of a stack of essays, the topmost essay has a grade, F, written at the top in red pen.

Voices & Opinion

POV: It’s Time to Upgrade to Ungrading

May 11, 2022

POV: It’s Time to Upgrade to Ungrading